US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Nov. 3 for "Printing apparatus and printing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,847, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Shunsuke Murakami (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a transport unit including a transporting belt formed with an adhesive layer on a surface thereof and configured to support a medium at the adhesive layer to transport the medium, a recording unit configured to perform recording by ejecting ink onto the medium supported by the transport unit, a heating unit configured to heat the transport unit, and a control unit configured to control the transport unit and the record...