ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,670, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BIXOLON Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Chan Wook Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Nam Young Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyung Jae Ko (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae Hoon Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a printing apparatus that is mounted with roll-shaped drawable printing paper made of thermal paper whose color changes by heat, performs printing on the printing paper and cuts the printing paper via a cutter, and a printing method that is performed by the printing apparatus."...