ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,224, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus, control method of liquid ejection apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program" was invented by Atsushi Sumii (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection section that ejects liquid onto a medium, a transport belt that transports the medium, a cleaning member that cleans the transport belt by coming into contact with the transport belt, the cleaning member being capable of switching between a contact state in which the cleaning member comes into contac...