ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,230, issued on June 10, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Takuya Tsuji (Chiryu, Japan), Yasuo Nishikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroaki Takahashi (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a liquid storage part; a conveying unit; an image recording unit including a platen; a cutting unit; and a controller, wherein the controller cuts a recording medium by moving the cutting unit to an outer side of the platen in a scanning direction intersecting a conveying direction of the recording medium, wherein, on the outer side of the platen in the scanning di...