ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,139, issued on March 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Harada (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a printing section that performs printing on a medium; a control section that controls drive of the printing section; a power supply connector that supplies electric power to the control section; a first receptacle connector that is electrically coupled to a first external device; and a second receptacle connector that is electrically coupled to a second external device, a plug of a USB-Type-C cable is configured to be physically inserted into the sec...