ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,688, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yuta Kawaguchi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Hideyuki Kataoka (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a main body unit, a head unit that ejects ink onto a medium, a carriage that reciprocates with the head unit mounted on the main body unit, a support shaft that extends in a reciprocating direction of the carriage and supports the carriage, and a cable that has one end coupled to the main body unit and the other end electrically coupled to the head unit, and supplies an electrical signal to the head uni...