US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 15 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,812, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Nakata (Matsumoto, Japan), Kanji Momose (Matsumoto, Japan), Katsumi Maruyama (Azumino, Japan), Masanari Tanaka (Shiojiri, Japan), Katsumi Yamada (Matsumoto, Japan) and Hirokazu Anada (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding portion holding a waste liquid container is disposed at a position at which a waste liquid container region overlapping the waste liquid container in a region inside a printing apparatus and a movement path of a carriage overlap when viewed from a transport direction, above a transpor...