ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,825, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Conveyance control device, conveyance control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions" was invented by Kodai Mizuno (Hekinan, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Shuichi Tamaki (Nagoya, Japan), Akira Shinoda (Obu, Japan) and Kenji Sato (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance control device of the present disclosure is provided with a CPU that controls a platen conveyance mechanism that conveys a platen from a preparation position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via...