ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,892, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Iwano (Tokyo), Takahito Kido (Kanagawa, Japan) and Klaas Verzijl (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection head and a liquid ejection apparatus that can suppress a deterioration of the printing quality include, as reference members, a first reference member and a second reference member that are provided at one end portion in a second direction crossing a first direction in which ejection ports are arrayed so as to be in different positions...