ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,188, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device" was invented by Ryuji Moriyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Yoshihiko Momose (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yoichi Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a recording device including: a medium support portion that supports a medium, a head that ejects a liquid toward the medium, an irradiation unit that emits an ultraviolet ray toward the medium, a carriage on which the head and the irradiation unit are mounted, a moving mechanism that relatively moves the medium supported by the medium support portion and the carriage in a first direc...