ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,094, issued on July 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge apparatus, and method for manufacturing liquid discharge head" was invented by Jun Zhang (Kanagawa, Japan), Sho Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasunori Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiro Kanematsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kiyoshi Amari (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzle holes from which a liquid is dischargeable, the multiple nozzle holes arrayed in a nozzle array direction; a housing bonded to the nozzle plate by a diffusion bonding to support t...