ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,141, issued on April 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Aiichiro Otana (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Somete (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head, a conveyance belt, a control portion, an ink collector, and a suction portion. The ink collector includes a plurality of ink receivers that receives ink that has passed through openings of the conveyance belt during execution of flushing, a waste ink tank disposed below the ink receivers, a suction path that is formed in the waste ink tank and leads fro...