ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,224, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and medium" was invented by Hirofumi Kondo (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including: a line head including a plurality of nozzles and a discharging surface in which the plurality of nozzles is opened, the line head being configured to discharge a photo-curing ink from the plurality of nozzles to a printing medium; a light irradiator configured to irradiate the photo-curing ink on the printing medium with a light; an optical sensor configured to measure a d...