ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,016, issued on July 21, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Takanori Aimono (Matsumoto, Japan) and Siyuan Xu (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle. A sectional shape at a first-position in the nozzle in an ejection-direction is a first-external-shape, and a straight line extending in a second-direction orthogonal to both the ejection-direction and a first-direction being a longitudinal-direction of the first-external-shape and passing through a center of the first-external-shape in the first-direction is a f...