US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Printer and printing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,477, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Printer and printing method" was invented by Susumu Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan) and Osamu Morizono (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The maintenance unit is configured to be movable in the X direction, and moves between the facing position La facing the ejection head and the separation position Lb away from the ejection head in the X direction. Provided is the imaging part configured to image the imaging range Ri provided on the side of the separation position Lb relative to the facing position La in the X direction and the imaging part images at ...