ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,261, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Haruki Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting head includes head chips ejecting a liquid in a first-direction, a fixed plate having a flat plate portion to which the head chips are fixed, and a holder having a flow path forming portion provided with first-coupling-flow-paths that are open in the first-direction, the head chip has a flow path pipe in which a second-coupling-flow-path is provided and which protrudes in a second-direction opposite to the first-directi...