US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on March 17 for "Recording device and method of controlling recording device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,644, issued on March 17, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Recording device and method of controlling recording device" was invented by Yasuo Sunaga (Matsumoto, Japan), Takeshi Aoki (Matsumoto, Japan) and Yusaku Amano (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording device has: a recording section that discharges a liquid to a medium for recording purposes; a maintenance unit that abuts the recording section and performs maintenance of the recording section; a first moving section that causes the recording section to abut the maintenance unit and separates the recording section from the maintenance unit; and a ...