ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,982, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device and air blowing control method of recording device" was invented by Shogo Awaji (Shiojiri, Japan) and Takuya Uehara (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medium discharge unit that discharges a medium subjected to recording by a recording unit, a placement unit at which the medium discharged by the medium discharge unit is placed, the placement unit being inclined with a downstream side in a discharge direction in which the medium is discharged being positioned, in a vertical direction, above an upstream side in the discharge direction, an...