ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,244, issued on March 24, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Shunsuke Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Masahiko Mizuno (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a head unit and a gap adjustment device. The head unit includes one or more inkjet heads. The gap adjustment device adjusts a gap of the head unit with respect to a conveyance path. The gap adjustment device includes a shaft, a rotating body, a stepped part, a gap adjustment member, a spherical body. The rotating member has an intersection surface intersecting the sh...