US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Jan. 13 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,997, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kazuhisa Kato (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a transport unit configured to transport a medium in a transport direction, a printing unit configured to form an image on the medium, and a reading unit extended in an extending direction intersecting the transport direction and configured to read the image formed on the medium, wherein the extending direction of the reading unit is inclined with respect to a width direction orthogonal to the transport direction. With the printing apparat...