ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,937, issued on March 18, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Seiji Ihara (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a platen that supports a recording medium, a printing head that reciprocates along the platen, and discharges a droplet onto the recording medium supported by the platen at least in a forward route or a backward route of the reciprocation, to perform printing, and an air blowing unit disposed on at least one of two sides of the platen in a reciprocation direction, that is a direction in which the printing head moves along ...