ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,654, issued on May 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kazuma Ozaki (Okaya, Japan) and Yoshitsugu Tokai (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a body portion and a carriage configured to move in a first direction along a first axis and in a second direction along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. The carriage is mounted with a head configured to eject ink toward a medium and an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the medium with ultraviolet rays arranged side by side in the first direction. The irradiation unit includes a first cont...