US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 21 for "Recording device and washing mechanism" (Japanese, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,221, issued on July 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device and washing mechanism" was invented by Yasunori Onishi (Shiojiri, Japan), Shigenori Nakagawa (Bangalore, India), Kazutoshi Fujishima (Azumino, Japan), Katsumasa Tanaka (Ina, Japan), Takahiro Matsuzaki (Shiojiri, Japan), Shuhei Nishizawa (Matsumoto, Japan), Kohei Yamada (Shiojiri, Japan), Tsukasa Eguchi (Matsumoto, Japan), Atsushi Matsuo (Azumino, Japan) and Toshiyuki Nozawa (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device 11 includes a transport belt 25; a recording section 12 configured to record an image on a medium 99 by ejecting pi...