ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,779, issued on March 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Colorimetric apparatus" was invented by Haruki Miyasaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kenichi Shirota (Suwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colorimetric apparatus has a shutter unit that can shift between a closed position and an open position. The apparatus body has: a shifting member that can shift between a projection position, at which the shifting member projects in a first direction, and a retraction position, at which the shifting member retracts in a second direction; a first pressing member that presses the shifting member in the first direction; and an ope...