US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Inkjet printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,176, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Inkjet printing apparatus" was invented by Yuto Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan), Hideaki Onishi (Kyoto, Japan), Takanori Tsuji (Kyoto, Japan), Noboru Hamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan), Akihiro Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan), Miki Nakagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Mitsuru Tanemoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Takaharu Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing apparatus includes a discharge head configured to discharge ink, a supply tank in which ink supplied to the discharge head is stored, a collecting tank in which ink collected from the discharge head is stored, a con...