US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on March 4 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,225, issued on March 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Satoru Katagami (Matsumoto, Japan), Hiroshi Toyama (Shiojiri, Japan) and Yuichi Washio (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying unit includes a first contact heating unit provided inside a housing, and a second contact heating unit provided downstream in a transport direction from the first contact heating unit inside the housing. The first contact heating unit includes a first contact heating surface configured to come into contact with a back surface of a medium after printing. The second contact heating unit incl...