ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,857, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and printing system with blowing portion for blowing air towards printing region where liquid having solvent is ejected" was invented by Tomoki Shinoda (Shiojiri, Japan) and Ken Inoue (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a medium support portion that supports a medium, a liquid ejecting portion that can perform printing by ejecting a liquid containing a solvent from a nozzle to a printing region of the medium supported by the medium support portion, and a dry air blowing portion that can blow dry air toward ...