ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,217, issued on March 24, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Calibration method" was invented by Naoki Takatsu (Suwa, Japan), Hiromu Miyazawa (Azumino, Japan), Satoru Masai (Ina, Japan) and Oshi Iwakami (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A calibration method includes acquiring medium information; specifying a type of medium by collating medium information with structure data; executing a first simulation of ejecting liquid by changing at least one of physical property conditions at least once for a structure model corresponding to a specified type of the medium; ejecting the liquid onto the medium; acquiring permea...