ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,643, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liquid ejection apparatus and control method for liquid ejection apparatus" was invented by Sawako Tsujimura (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, an absorbing member, and a control unit, in which the liquid ejection head and the absorbing member are movable relative to each other in a scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, the receiving area includes a plurality of first divided receiving areas and a plurality of second divided receiving areas, and the control unit performs flushing on ...