ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,571, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting system" was invented by Toshiro Murayama (Fujimi-machi, Japan) and Takao Yamamoto (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting system includes a head unit that ejects liquid, a first output portion that outputs unique information unique to the head unit to an external server, a first input portion to which update information about the head unit is input from the external server in association with the unique information, and a notification portion that notifies a user based on the update information."

The patent was filed on May...