ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,071, issued on June 3, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Head replacement method, inkjet printing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording head replacement support program" was invented by Hideaki Onishi (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The head replacement method includes: a pipe connection step of performing, by a user, pipe connection of a new head; an ink circulation start step of starting circulation of ink in a circulation flow path; and a connection state determination step of determined, based on an ink liquid level position representing a height of an ink l...