ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,816, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kenji Matoba (Nagoya, Japan) and Atsushi Ito (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a discharging head discharging, onto a print medium, at least one ink among a printing ink, a base layer ink and a protective layer ink; an obtaining section obtaining information regarding a shape of the print medium; and a controller. The controller executes an ink amount increasing processing by controlling a discharging operation of the discharging head so as to increase an amount per unit area of t...