ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,024, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid discharge system" was invented by Toshiro Murayama (Fujimi-machi, Japan), Nobuaki Ito (Suwa, Japan), Akira Miyagishi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Tomonaga Hasegawa (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid discharge system that controls an operation of a first liquid discharge head provided with a plurality of nozzles for discharging a liquid, the liquid discharge system including: a determination section that determines presence or absence of a discharge abnormality of a first nozzle among the plurality of nozzles; a reception secti...