US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 14 for "Printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,122, issued on July 14, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device" was invented by Naohiro Ueyama (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yuya Yumoto (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes the carriage 24 that has disposed thereon the print head 25 configured to print on the medium and that is configured to move in the main scanning direction X and the housing 14 configured to accommodate the carriage 24, wherein the opening 31 is provided in the side surface section 14A of the housing 14 at a position that overlaps with the carriage 24 as viewed from the main scanning direction X."

The patent wa...