ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,812, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head and recording apparatus" was invented by Tatsurou Mori (Tokyo), Takuya Iwano (Tokyo), Tomoki Tsuji (Kanagawa, Japan), Marcel Van Der Veen (Venlo, Netherlands), Henricus Gerardus Jozef Boerstal (Velden, Netherlands) and Petrus Wilhelmus Antonius Maria Aerts (Tienray, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a liquid discharge unit, a housing, an electrical connection portion, and a connection portion cover member. The liquid discharge unit discharges liquid, the housing covers the liquid discharge unit, and the electrica...