ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,042, issued on May 6, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Droplet discharge device and droplet discharge method" was invented by Takeshi Akai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Yamaya (Gifu, Japan), Takahiko Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Nonoyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Arai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A droplet discharge device for discharging a droplet into recess parts of a storage vessel includes a storage vessel, a discharge head configured to insert a discharge surface into a recess part and discharge droplets while moving in two horizontal directions, a mounting table, a vertical position adjusting part configure...