US Patent Issued to RICOH on June 16 for "Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and method for producing head unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,442, issued on June 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and method for producing head unit" was invented by Takuya Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a plurality of nozzle arrays and circuitry. The nozzle arrays discharge a plurality of droplets having different volumes onto a recording medium at mutually different times. The circuitry controls a discharge operation to discharge the droplets. The circuitry causes a nozzle array of the nozzle arrays to discharge a droplet, of the droplets, of a first reference am...