US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on March 24 for "Drying method, drying device, and printing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,247, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drying method, drying device, and printing device" was invented by Yuki Aoki (Shiojiri, Japan) and Tomohiro Yoda (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying method includes a heat step of heating the medium, a transport step of transporting the medium in the transport direction, and an air blowing step of blowing air to the medium while heating the transported medium, and the temperature is adjusted in each of the heating step and the air blowing step."

The patent was filed on Aug. 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/451,209.

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