US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on June 24 for "Printing apparatus and printing apparatus with consumable item" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,603, issued on June 24, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and printing apparatus with consumable item" was invented by Masahiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Sadaaki Miyazaki (Nagoya, Japan), Tetsunori Mori (Kariya, Japan), Naoya Okazaki (Hashima, Japan) and Satoru Oki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including: an installing part; a printer; and a controller. The printing apparatus is configured to operate in a contract mode. The consumable item includes a memory. Consumable item information includes first type information indicating that the consumab...