ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,374, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Shinada (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit that performs printing on a print medium; a support unit disposed facing the printing unit, the support unit supporting the print medium; a plurality of first transport rollers that transport the print medium to the support unit; a medium collection unit that winds in a roll shape the print medium on which printing was performed by the printing unit; and a plurality of second transport rollers that transport the print me...