US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 27 for "Liquid ejection apparatus, control method for liquid ejection apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,682, issued on May 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus, control method for liquid ejection apparatus, and program" was invented by Atsushi Sumii (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller of a liquid ejection apparatus is configured to execute a cleaning operation of cleaning the transport belt by the cleaning member and a recovery operation of recovering cleaning capability of the cleaning member by rotating the transport belt in a state where the cleaning member contacts the transport belt."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/154,673.

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