US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 8 for "Liquid discharge system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,640, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Liquid discharge system" was invented by Tomoya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kento Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan), Bingxian Chen (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeru Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge system includes: a first head having a first nozzle, from which a liquid is to be discharged, on a first nozzle face oriented in a first direction; a second head having a second nozzle, from which a liquid is to be discharged, on a second nozzle face oriented in a second direction different from the first direction; a head holder holding the first...