ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,648, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Ink jet recording device" was invented by Tomoki Maruyama (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet recording device of the present disclosure is an ink jet recording device including an ink amount detection device that includes a container internally having an accommodation space that accommodates an ink jet ink composition, a first electrode and at least one second electrode disposed to face each other via the accommodation space, and a capacitance detection unit detecting a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode using ...