US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 18 for "Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,942, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid ejecting method" was invented by Hiroyuki Hagiwara (Matsumoto, Japan) and Noriaki Okazawa (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head including an ejecting surface configured to eject a liquid; a tank that reserves the liquid to be supplied to the liquid ejecting head; a circulating mechanism that executes a circulating operation to circulate the liquid between the liquid ejecting head and the tank; and a control unit that controls the circulating mechanism. The co...