ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,919, issued on June 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejecting method" was invented by Koki Hirata (Nagano, Japan) and Shun Katsuie (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejecting method is a liquid ejecting method of ejecting a liquid from a liquid ejecting head including a nozzle array constituted by arranging nozzles, in which the liquid ejecting head is configured to move relative to a first medium, the liquid ejecting method including ejecting, in a state in which the relative movement is stopped, a liquid from first nozzles constituting a part of the nozzle array to form a first liquid dr...