US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on April 22 for "Printing apparatus, printing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,603, issued on April 22, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus, printing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Nishihara (Nagoya, Japan) and Akira Minami (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CPU of a printing apparatus energizes heat-generating elements for a predetermined period of time in a first divided printing cycle of two divided printing cycles obtained by dividing one printing cycle, according to a yellow energization pattern, and forms a first yellow print dot without causing a heat-sensitive tape to develop another color. Then, the CP...