US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 6 for "Liquid discharge apparatus and liquid discharge method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,536, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge apparatus and liquid discharge method" was invented by Keitaroh Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes discharge nozzles, a carriage, a conveyor, and a controller. The discharge nozzles discharge liquid. The carriage holds the discharge nozzles. The conveyor conveys the carriage. The controller controls drawing of an object to be drawn, using the discharge nozzles. The controller draws an outer edge portion of the object using one discharge nozzle of the discharge nozzles in an outer-edge-portion dr...