ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,704, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Transport device and liquid ejecting apparatus" was invented by Kazutoshi Fujishima (Azumino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport device including a transporting belt that includes a medium-supportable outer circumferential surface and transports the medium, a cleaning roller capable of cleaning the outer circumferential surface, a storage unit that stores a cleaning liquid supplied to the outer circumferential surface via the cleaning roller, a discharge port through which the cleaning liquid is dischargeable, a flow path pipe through which the discharg...