ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,557, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and printhead" was invented by Hiromasa Tsutsumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Matsumura (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Saeki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuri Mori (Tokyo), Koki Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Asada (Tokyo), Ken Takenaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Daiju Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mineyoshi Tomie (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a support member configured to support a printhead that performs printing by discharging ink to a print medium, a connecting member including a connecting portion connected to an ink introduction port...