US Patent Issued to SCREEN Holdings on Nov. 3 for "Inkjet printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,874, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Inkjet printing apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Ogawa (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Ito (Kyoto, Japan) and Hideaki Onishi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This inkjet printing apparatus includes an ink circulation path in which a circulation pump that circulates ink and a heater that heats circulating ink are interposed. A control unit can sequentially perform a step (a) of, upon receipt of a signal regarding a command for stopping driving the circulation pump, stopping driving the heater, and determining a circulation duration for which the circu...