ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,432, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Nakajima (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yuki Ishii (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a head and a robot which moves the head with respect to a workpiece, the head includes a first nozzle row for ejecting a first and a second nozzle row for ejecting a second ink which has lower brightness than the first ink, the robot includes an arm portion having a distal end, a proximal end, and a plurality of joints, and a base portion coupled to the proximal end, and supports the head by the distal en...