ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,804, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing device and printing method" was invented by Kazuya Toshima (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dot to be discharged by a first defective nozzle and a dot to be discharged by a second defective nozzle are determined to be adjacent to each other in a sub-scanning direction, the printing device replaces the position of the dot to be discharged by the first defective nozzle in a main scanning direction with the position of the dot to be discharged by the first normal nozzle in the main scanning direction and then converts the size of a dot adjacent i...