US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 1 for "Printing apparatus and printing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,341, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Masaru Kumagai (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a head that ejects liquid, a robot that includes a base portion and a distal end portion supporting the head and changes a relative position of the head with respect to the base portion, and a moving mechanism that moves a work relative to the base portion. A first printing operation in which the head ejects the liquid onto a first region in a printing region and a second printing operation in which the head ejects the l...