US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 8 for "Printing apparatus and method of printing for intermittantly transporting a medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,945, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method of printing for intermittantly transporting a medium" was invented by Atsushi Imamura (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a transport unit that intermittently transports a medium, a support portion that supports the medium, a head that performs printing by discharging a liquid onto the medium supported by the support portion during a period in which the transport of the medium by the transport unit is stopped, a carriage at which the head is mounted and that moves relative to the medium, and a cont...