ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,042, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yutaka Nagashima (Matsumoto, Japan), Yusuke Kato (Shiojiri, Japan) and Nobuaki Sakai (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a head configured to perform printing on a medium; an outer packaging configured to accommodate the head; and an operating panel provided at a side surface of the outer packaging and configured to receive an operation, in which the operating panel includes a display surface, and in a state in which the display surface is tilted upward relative to the side surface, at lea...