ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,935, issued on April 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Akira Yamagishi (Shiojiri, Japan) and Akihiro Toya (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge portion configured to discharge liquid, a maintenance portion that performs maintenance of the liquid discharge portion, a reception portion arranged on a lower side than the maintenance portion in a vertical direction and configured to receive waste liquid dripping from the maintenance portion, and a waste liquid flow path through ...