ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,673, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Housing structure and recording device" was invented by Satoshi Nakata (Matsumoto, Japan), Kanji Momose (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hirokazu Anada (Matsumoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing structure includes a main housing, a first cover configured to open and close by rotating with respect to the main housing about a first axis along a horizontal direction, a second cover provided further inside than the first cover and configured to open and close with respect to the main housing together with the first cover by rotating around a second axis parallel ...