US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 1 for "Liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,998, issued on July 1, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Masaaki Tsuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Norikazu Yanase (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a first liquid discharge unit including a first liquid discharge head that moves in a main scanning direction to discharge a liquid onto a recording medium conveyed in a conveyance direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, a second liquid discharge unit at a different position with the first liquid discharge unit in the conveyance direction and including a second liquid discharg...