ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,279, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Toshiki Usui (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus performs gradation expression with multiple gradation levels by ejecting liquid droplets onto a medium. In the liquid ejecting apparatus, a period in which a first drive circuit outputs a second drive waveform as a first drive signal at least partially overlaps a period in which a second drive circuit outputs a fourth drive waveform as a second drive signal; a period in which the first drive circuit outputs a third drive waveform as the ...