ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,887, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Kazunori Takabayashi (Okaya, Japan), Kazuhisa Takeda (Shiojiri, Japan) and Kenichi Shirota (Suwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a housing, a medium support unit having a support surface supporting a medium, and a printing unit configured to perform printing on the medium supported by the support surface. The housing accommodates the medium support unit and the printing unit. The medium support unit includes a position adjustment unit configured to adjust a position of the sup...