US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 15 for "Liquid ejection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,797, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Zenichiro Sasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Kenta Horade (Tokai, Japan), Masahiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Ryuji Horata (Gamagori, Japan), Nobumasa Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Takafumi Nakase (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller performs: in a case where a particular condition is satisfied, acquiring abnormal nozzle information relating to numbers of first and second abnormal nozzles and a total number of abnormal nozzles; determining whether a purge is to be performed, the determining including determini...