ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,408, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Colorimetry device" was invented by Katsumi Yamada (Matsumoto, Japan), Takeshi Tokuda (Shiojiri, Japan), Shigeaki Isobe (Matsumoto, Japan) and Ko Terao (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A colorimetry device includes a support base having a support surface for supporting a measurement target and a carriage unit configured to move in at least one of a first direction, which is a direction along the support surface, and a second direction, which is a direction along the support surface and which intersects the first direction as a moving direction, wherein...