US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on July 28 for "Printing apparatus and method for producing printed matter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,700, issued on July 28, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method for producing printed matter" was invented by Tsuyoshi Himeno (Matsumoto, Japan), Toshihiro Hayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Daisuke Shinohara (Shiojiri, Japan) and Ayako Kobayashi (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to perform printing on a medium; a conveyance unit configured to convey the medium; a winding unit configured to wind up the medium after printing; and a stopping unit configured to stop conveyance of the medium by the conveyance unit in response to a break of a p...