US Patent Issued to CANON on May 26 for "Liquid ejecting apparatus, imprint apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,885, issued on May 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus, imprint apparatus, and control method" was invented by Takahiro Hosokawa (Tochigi, Japan), Hisashi Namba (Tochigi, Japan) and Noriyasu Hasegawa (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection unit including an ejection surface in which an orifice through which a liquid is ejected is open, an oscillating element provided with the orifice, a retention member arranged opposite the ejection surface and configured to retain a liquid between the retention member and the ejection surface, a detection unit con...