ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,225, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kazunori Takabayashi (Okaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a medium support unit having a support surface that supports at least a printing region of a medium, a medium accommodation unit configured to store a region of the medium that is not supported by the support surface, a head configured to eject a liquid onto the medium supported by the support surface, and a head moving unit configured to move the head. The medium support unit is configured not to move in a direction parallel to the su...