ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,937, issued on April 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and control method for printing apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Noda (Ogaki, Japan) and Atsushi Ito (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including: a first head including first nozzles; a first irradiator including first light sources; and a controller. The first nozzles are arranged to constitute a nozzle row. The first light sources are arranged to constitute a light source row, and including an inner light source, and first and second outer light sources. The controller is configured t...