US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 8 for "Printing device and control method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,146, issued on July 8, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K..

"Printing device and control method of the same" was invented by Takashi Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan) and Tadao Kyotani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing device, including: a cartridge storing developer; a memory provided in the cartridge; and a controller configured to execute a printing process of operating the cartridge form a developer image on a sheet by use of the developer in the cartridge, a first access process of performing access to the memory when the printing process is not being executed, and a second access process of performing access to the me...