ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,786, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Akio Motegi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, circuitry, and an image detector. The liquid discharge head includes multiple nozzles and discharges a liquid from the multiple nozzles. The circuitry causes the liquid discharge head to discharge the liquid onto a recording medium to form an image in an image area of the recording medium in a printing operation. The image detector reads the image formed on the recording medium. The circuitry further causes th...