ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,115, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An individual flow path that communicates with a nozzle, a supply side common liquid chamber for supplying ink to the nozzle, a recovery side common liquid chamber for recovering the ink not discharged from the nozzle, an inlet that communicates with the supply side common liquid chamber, an outlet that communicates with the recovery side common liquid chamber, a first bypass flow path, and a second bypass flow path are provided, in w...