ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,148, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Inkjet printing device and inkjet printing method" was invented by Tomoyasu Okushima (Kyoto, Japan), Takaharu Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan), Ippei Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuta Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is provided that reduces the occurrence of a difference in print resolution between an upstream ejector and a downstream ejector due to expansion and contraction of a recording medium. An inkjet printing apparatus includes four heads arranged in a transport direction and four ejection controllers that control the four h...