US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Jan. 27 for "Information processing apparatus, head management method, and head management system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,508, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, head management method, and head management system" was invented by Naoya Kanamura (Shiojiri, Japan), Kenya Sakurai (Matsumoto, Japan) and Katsuaki Sato (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server is an information processing apparatus that is connected to a printer including a replaceable printing head and manages delivery of the printing head, the information processing apparatus including a replacement-information acquiring unit configured to acquire replacement information indicating that the printing head was repla...