ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,676, issued on March 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport device and recording device" was invented by Koji Sato (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yoshihisa Horikawa (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device includes a transport belt having a support surface configured to support a medium, a cleaning roller including an absorbent member configured to absorb cleaning liquid, and configured to clean the support surface as the absorbent member comes into contact with the support surface, a supply unit configured to supply the cleaning liquid to the cleaning roller, and a squeeze member to squeeze the a...