ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,898, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording apparatus and recording method" was invented by Ryuji Moriyama (Matsumoto, Japan), Yoshihiko Momose (Shiojiri, Japan) and Kazuma Ozaki (Okaya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus including a medium supporting part, a recording unit, a movement unit, a height detection unit, and a control unit. The control unit causes the height detection unit to perform the primary detection and the secondary detection, in the primary detection, the displacement detection unit detects the contact and the non-contact with the medium while moving the co...