ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,909, issued on June 23, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus and method of reading recorded image in recording apparatus" was invented by Morio Iwata (Matsumoto, Japan), Yuka Shimizu (Shimosuwa-machi, Japan), Shumi Karasawa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Satoshi Yoshino (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes: a recording path passing a recorder performing recording by ejecting liquid onto a medium; a feeding path through which the medium is fed to the recording path; a discharge path through which the medium after recording performed thereon by the recorder is discharged; a ...