ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,247, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Shuhou Co. Ltd. (Fukui, Japan).
"Printing apparatus and method for producing printed item" was invented by Kouji Muraoka (Fukui, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing pad having a printing surface configured to be deformed to conform to a shape of a surface of an item to be printed, a printing original plate stage on which a printing original plate is placed, the printing original plate having a placement surface on which ink is placed, a printing stage provided for placing the item to be printed, and a blower configured to send air toward the printing surf...