ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,490, issued on July 7, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Miyazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate having multiple nozzles from which a liquid is dischargeable in a discharge direction, the multiple nozzles arrayed in a nozzle array direction; an individual channel member including individual channels respectively communicating with the multiple nozzles; multiple pressure generators to generate pressure to discharge the liquid from the multiple nozzles, respectively; a wiring member in...