ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,184, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yoshiharu Furuhata (Nagoya, Japan) and Shin Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a discharge head including nozzles; a head scanning mechanism that reciprocatingly moves the discharge head in a main scanning direction; a conveyer that conveys a recording medium in a sub-scanning direction; and a controller. In one pass, the controller executes: recording processing in which an image is formed on the recording medium by moving the discharge head in the main sc...