ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,940, issued on April 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Eto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer (1) includes an endless conveyance belt (45) which attracts a sheet and conveys it in a predetermined conveyance direction; a recording head (30) provided with an ejection port formed surface (31) on which an ejection port for ejecting ink is formed, the ejection port formed surface (31) facing an outer circumferential surface of the conveyance belt (45) with a predetermined gap; and a conveyance guide (70) which faces the conveyance bel...