ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,447, issued on June 16, was assigned to RISO Technologies Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid dispensing head and liquid dispensing device" was invented by Taiki Goto (Izunokuni, Japan), Shinichiro Hida (Numazu, Japan) and Masashi Shimosato (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a liquid dispensing head includes a substrate having a first surface and a piezoelectric member on the first surface of the substrate. A sidewall surface portion of the piezoelectric member is inclined at an obtuse angle with respect to the first surface. A vibration plate is positioned above the piezoelectric member in a first directio...