ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,035, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing device" was invented by Kenichiro Kaneko (Okaya, Japan) and Fusao Ohashi (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device 11 includes a printing section 16 that performs printing by ejecting a liquid onto a transported medium 99, a support section 21 facing the printing section and having a support surface 22 for supporting the medium, a holding section 26 for holding the medium spanning across from the support section, a heating section 31 that is located downstream of the support section in the transport direction of the medium and that he...