US Patent Issued to Canon on July 7 for "Liquid ejection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,496, issued on July 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Tetsuji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Seiji Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Araki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaya Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes an ejection head configured to include an ejection port surface in which ejection ports for ejecting liquid are arranged, a cap configured to be movable to a capping position where the ejection port surface is capped, and to an uncapped position where the ejection port surface is not capped, and a cleaning mechanism configured to be movable, indepe...