ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,846, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording element substrate, liquid discharge head, and recording device" was invented by Yasuhiro Soeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording element substrate includes a nozzle, an energy generating portion, a latch input terminal which inputs a latch signal, a data input terminal which inputs a data signal for controlling a drive state of the energy generating portion, a heat-pulse generation circuit which generates a heat-pulse signal determining a drive timing of the energy generating portion, a latch circuit to which the data signal is transferred ...