ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,882, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Droplet discharge device" was invented by Daisuke Arai (Tokyo), Takahiko Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Nonoyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Akai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A droplet discharge device for discharging a droplet into one or more droplet storage parts of a storage vessel; the droplet discharge device including: a droplet discharge part configured to discharge the droplet in a predetermined amount from a nozzle hole of the droplet discharge part; a storage vessel holding part configured to hold the storage vessel; a mover part con...