ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,398, issued on March 31, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ink jet system" was invented by Akira Miyagishi (Shiojiri, Japan), Nobuaki Ito (Suwa, Japan) and Toshiro Murayama (Fujimi-Machi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ink jet system includes a recording device on which a head unit that ejects ink is mounted, the recording device performing recording on a recording medium, a processing device connected to the recording device and performing a data process for causing the recording device to perform recording, and a server connectable to either the recording device or the processing device, wherein either the recor...