ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,990, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Kaori Kitayama (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of line heads each including a recording head, a plurality of waste ink collection containers, a display portion that indicates states of the line heads and the waste ink collection containers, and a control portion that detects the states of the line heads and the waste ink collection containers and controls display portion. In a case where an unused line head or an unused waste ink collectio...