US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on July 28 for "Inkjet printing apparatus and cleaning method therefor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,687, issued on July 28, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Inkjet printing apparatus and cleaning method therefor" was invented by Susumu Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inkjet printing apparatus, cleaning target heads are accurately determined to offer advantages over conventional inkjet printing apparatuses in terms of printing efficiency, quality, and other characteristics. In the inkjet printing apparatus, when cleaning should be started, a cleaning target head determination portion determines any printheads to be cleaning targets as designated heads based on a discharge state d...