ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,040, issued on May 6, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Image formation device" was invented by Yusuke Kuramochi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an inkjet head; an ink reservoir that stores ink circulating between the inkjet head and the ink reservoir; a pressure generating unit that communicates with the inkjet head and generates a first pressure such that an internal pressure of the ink reservoir becomes the first pressure; and a first fluid resistor that gives resistance to a fluid flowing through a fluid communication path between the ink reservoir and the pressure generating...