ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,044, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Kento Nawa (Shiojiri, Japan) and Shigeki Suzuki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head having an ejection surface provided with nozzle arrays and configured to execute a printing operation; a liquid storage section; and a control section configured to execute the printing operation, in which the nozzle arrays include a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, when the liquid storage section is not coupled to the first nozzle array ...