ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,657, issued on March 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing device having guide channel for guiding liquid discharged from housing toward outside of the printing device" was invented by Tomohiro Wada (Nagoya, Japan) and Yusuke Ikemoto (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes a printing head, a housing, a cover, and a guide channel. The housing accommodates therein the printing head. The housing includes a bottom wall formed with a communication hole through which liquid that has entered the housing is to be discharged to an outside of the housing. The cover covers the commun...