ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,912, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid jetting nozzle and liquid jetting device" was invented by Hirokazu Sekino (Chino, Japan), Yasunori Onishi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Takeshi Seto (Chofu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a liquid jetting nozzle including a nozzle hole, the liquid jetting nozzle be configured to hit liquid droplets against a target object, the liquid droplets being generated from a continuous flow of a liquid jetted from the nozzle hole, wherein a nozzle hole diameter of the nozzle hole is in a range of from 0.01 mm to 0.15 mm, and a ratio of an opening diameter of a...