ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,171, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Printer" was invented by Kazuyoshi Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes multiple heads to discharge liquids; a sub-carriage mounting the multiple heads; a carriage movable in a moving direction and detachably mounting the sub-carriage; a liquid container containing the liquids supplied to the multiple heads; a temporary stand on the carriage to temporarily hold the sub-carriage; and a branch having multiple branch paths to distribute the liquids from the liquid container to the multiple heads. The branch and the temporary stand are disp...