ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,249, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Yuji Shingu (Shiojiri, Japan), Jun Sato (Shiojiri, Japan), Masaya Harayama (Suwa, Japan) and Hiromitsu Orii (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus is configured to transition to a first mode in which less electric power is consumed per unit period than in the printing operation and a second mode in which less electric power is consumed per unit period than in the first mode. The second mode is started at the end of a predetermined period of time following completion of the printing operation...