ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,791, issued on July 29, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge device and system" was invented by Motoki Takabe (Shiojiri, Japan), Yu Shiozawa (Shiojiri, Japan), Masaki Mori (Shiojiri, Japan), Hitoshi Takaai (Azumino, Japan) and Eiju Hirai (Azumino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge device has a liquid discharge head that includes a pressure chamber substrate provided with a first pressure chamber in which a liquid is accommodated, a first piezoelectric body provided to correspond to the first pressure chamber, and a detection resistor for detecting a temperature in a vicinity of the first ...