US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 2 for "Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,701, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and storage medium" was invented by Kyohei Hamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a recording head and circuitry including a selective-discharge mask having two or more bits. The circuitry moves the recording head relative to a recording medium while causing the recording head to discharge a liquid onto the recording medium, moves the recording head and the recording medium relative to each other while causing the recording head not to discharge the liquid, alterna...