US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 21 for "Recording device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,220, issued on July 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device and control method" was invented by Yoshikazu Koike (Chino, Japan), Takamasa Ikagawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Shintaro Komuro (Matsumoto, Japan), Hirohisa Adachi (Matsukawa-machi, Japan) and Masaki Miyazawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device configured to perform recording on a recording medium, includes a recording unit; a medium transport belt configured to transport the recording medium on which the recording is to be performed by the recording unit; a cleaning unit configured to move to a contact position at which the ...