US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Sept. 8 for "Printing device and printing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,635, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing device and printing method" was invented by Eishin Yoshikawa (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device can produce a bendable printed matter. The printing device acquires bending information including information of a bending region that is a region to be bent in a medium and information of the direction of the bending, and execute a first print mode in which printing is performed based on the bending information and a second print mode in which printing is performed differently from the first print mode. In a case of printing, in a ...