ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,433, issued on June 17, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Sasaki (Matsumoto, Japan), Haruki Miyasaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Narihiro Oki (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes an automatic opening mechanism for an opening/closing cover, a carriage that has a print head configured to perform printing on a medium and that moves in a direction intersecting a transport direction of the medium, and a discharge portion that is exposed in a state in which the opening/closing cover is opened and that discharges a printed material. The automatic open...