US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 11 for "Liquid application unit for linear medium, liquid application apparatus, dyeing embroidery system, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,732, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid application unit for linear medium, liquid application apparatus, dyeing embroidery system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Shinya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Komine (Kanagawa, Japan), Taito Omura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuuki Gotoh (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid application unit includes a supply member, a liquid application device, and an application controller. The supply member includes a cylindrical or columnar winding core around which a linear medium is wound. The liquid application device applies liquid...