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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,916, issued on June 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device" was invented by Mafumi Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan), Haruki Miyasaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kazuhisa Takeda (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device includes: a medium support unit including a support surface configured to support at least a printing region of a medium; a medium accommodating unit configured to accommodate a region of the medium not supported by the support surface; a head configured to discharge a liquid onto the medium supported by the support surface; a first head moving unit configured to move the head in...