ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,618, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Recording system and control method for recording system" was invented by Hirohisa Adachi (Matsukawa-machi, Japan), Masaki Miyazawa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kenji Uchibori (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance operation can be executed by ejecting a liquid when a time measured with reference to displacement of a cap from a maintenance position to a separation position exceeds a defined time. Before start of a recording operation in a recording job, a first medium waits at a standby position where the medium can wait upstream of a liquid ejection...