ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,816, issued on July 29, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Support unit and printing system" was invented by Hiroki Aoki (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support unit is configured to support a medium that is imaged by an imaging device and on which printing is performed by a printing apparatus in accordance with a result of the imaging. The support unit includes a table unit including a support region that supports the medium and a non-support region that does not support the medium, and a sandwiching unit having a portion with light transmissivity and being configured to sandwich the medium with the table...