ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,798, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Drive circuit board and liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Dai Nozawa (Matsumoto, Japan) and Noritaka Ide (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive circuit board includes a drive circuit that includes a first driver circuit, a first switching element pair configured to output a first switching signal, a second driver circuit, a second switching element pair configured to output a second switching signal corresponding to the first switching signal, a smoothing circuit configured to output the drive signal obtained by smoothing the second switch...