ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,432, issued on June 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Print system" was invented by Yuki Hiramatsu (Nukata, Japan), Atsushi Fujioka (Nagoya, Japan), Katsuma Torii (Nagoya, Japan), Takuji Sakabe (Chita, Japan), Hirokazu Miyabayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiromasa Takahashi (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print system includes a head, a conveyance motor, a first connector, and a second connector, a power supply circuit. When a first power source is connected to the first connector and a second power source is connected to the second connector, the power supply circuit supplies at least some of a fi...