ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,887, issued on June 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting head and liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Yu Shiozawa (Shiojiri, Japan) and Motoki Takabe (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle substrate including a first nozzle; a vibration plate; a pressure chamber substrate including a first pressure chamber in which pressure for ejecting liquid through the first nozzle is applied to liquid by the vibration plate and a first absorption chamber in which vibration of liquid propagated from the first pressure chamber is absorbed by the vibration plate; an...