ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,203, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing device and printing method" was invented by Kazuya Toshima (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case in which a dot of a first raster line to be discharged by a first defective nozzle and a dot of a second raster line to be discharged by a second defective nozzle are determined to be adjacent to each other in a sub-scanning direction when a transport unit performs movement by a predetermined first distance, a printing device performs first control of executing either control of changing a distance of the movement performed by the transport unit...