ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,274, issued on April 8, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording apparatus" was invented by Takaho Nagumo (Shiojiri, Japan), Kazuaki Takahashi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Ichiro Yoshioka (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus 101 includes a carriage 21 mounted with a liquid storage portion 46 and a recording head 22, the carriage 21 being movable to a visual check position, where liquid in the liquid storage portion 46 is visually checkable through a front surface 43F, and to a recording position, where the recording head 22 ejects the liquid to a medium, and light emitting units 81 and capable ...