US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Dec. 30 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,824, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Isao Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshimitsu Taniguchi (Tajimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: an accommodating unit accommodating a print medium; a first conveying unit picking up the print medium from the accommodating unit and conveying the print medium along a first conveying direction; a printing unit printing, on the print medium, print data included in a print job; a first detecting unit detecting front and rear ends in the first conveying direction of the print medium conveyed ...