ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,388, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Liquid ejection apparatus capable of suppressing drying of liquid and liquid ejection method" was invented by Yuko Yano (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid reception portion, a pump, and a liquid flow path. The liquid reception portion receives liquid ejected from an ejection portion on a lower side of the ejection portion. The pump is arranged apart from the liquid reception portion in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction and sucks in the liquid discharged to the liquid recept...