ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,286, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Yoshiya Kusunoki (Osaka, Japan), Yuzuru Yuasa (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Tamekuni (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a cap member, a humidifying part for humidifying interior of the cap member, a cap moving mechanism, a controller, and a storage part. The storage part has stored a non-capping period table in which a number of vibrations of ink level within each nozzle is increased based on a non-capping period of an ink ejection surface,...