US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Aug. 12 for "Printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,182, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device" was invented by Tsutomu Ozaki (Matsumoto, Japan), Ryuji Moriyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Akimasa Nozawa (Tatsuno-machi, Japan) and Yuta Watanabe (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a printing section that is provided on a first direction side with respect to a medium and that performs printing and a wiper that is detachably attached inside a housing and that is configured to wipe the printing section, wherein the wiper is configured to be pulled out from the housing by being pulled out in a second direction interse...