ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,590, issued on June 24, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Satake (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing head discharging ink onto a recording medium, a recording medium support unit supporting the recording medium by a support surface, an air intake unit sucking air from suction holes, and a suction region alteration unit. The suction region alteration unit includes a first guide member and a second guide member disposed side by side, a first mobile body movable along the first guide member, a second mobile body movable along the s...