US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on June 23 for "Platen, printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,911, issued on June 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Platen, printing device" was invented by Satoru Miyamoto (Matsumoto, Japan), Yusuke Kato (Shiojiri, Japan), Yutaka Nagashima (Matsumoto, Japan) and Nobuaki Sakai (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platen includes a support section configured to support a printing area of a medium; a base section fixed to the support section; a moving section configured to move relative to the base section; and a guide section configured to guide the movement of the moving section, wherein the guide section is incorporated so as to not protrude from the outer shape of t...