ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,256, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Makoto Miyazawa (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus in which a temperature information output circuit to which a unit temperature signal output by a unit temperature measurement circuit included in a head unit that discharges a liquid to a medium based on a drive signal, and a head temperature signal output by a head temperature detection section of a print head and including head temperature information corresponding to a temperature of the print head are input, and wh...