ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,457, issued on May 12, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ink supply structure for inkjet head" was invented by Takanori Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan), Tomonori Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan), Shigeki Matsuo (Kyoto, Japan) and Masaru Iwabuchi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet head includes an ejector unit that ejects ink in accordance with a driving signal and a drive substrate unit that outputs the driving signal. The ejector unit includes a base plate, an internal tank temporarily storing the ink ejected from an ejection outlet, a feed ink line that passes the ink supplied t...