ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,993, issued on July 1, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge device, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Akio Yoshita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a piezoelectric element, a first holding substrate, a second holding substrate, and damper. The first holding substrate has a recess accommodating the piezoelectric element, a first partition having a first width in a width direction of the first partition, and first side spaces partitioned by the first partition. The second holding substrate has a second partition having a second ...