ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,944, issued on July 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Shinichi Arazaki (Fujimi-Machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing head configured to eject ink onto a medium based on print data, a carriage that is mounted with the printing head and that is configured to reciprocate along a main scanning direction, a control unit configured to control the carriage and the printing head and execute a pass corresponding to ink ejection of the printing head along with movement of the carriage, and a colorimetric unit configured to measure...