ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,761, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Head lifting lowering device, control method of head lifting lowering device, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program, manufacturing method of head lifting lowering device" was invented by Takeshi Aoki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yusaku Amano (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head lifting lowering device includes: a lifting lowering mechanism that moves a liquid ejecting head, which ejects a liquid, in a first direction in which the liquid ejecting head is lifted/lowered; a frame that supports the lifting lowering mechanism; and an...