ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,100, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).
"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Osamu Katsuda (Matsumoto, Japan), Hideki Okada (Shiojiri, Japan) and Hirokazu Sekino (Chino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a conveyer configured to convey a medium in a conveyance direction; a carriage configured to move in a reciprocating direction intersecting the conveyance direction at a position facing the medium conveyed in the conveyance direction; and a head provided on the carriage and including at least one nozzle configured to eject liquid to the medium, in which the he...