US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 25 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,826, issued on March 25, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Inuzuka (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Arai (Nagoya, Japan) and Isao Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveying unit which conveys a printing medium in a conveying direction; a printing unit which prints an image on the printing medium conveyed by the conveying unit; a processing unit which includes a processing member and which executes a processing action for processing the printing medium by moving the processing member while causing the processing member to conta...