US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 4 for "Printing apparatus having first head and second head that eject ink in same color" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,251, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus having first head and second head that eject ink in same color" was invented by Shota Morikawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Tomoya Kondo (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: first and second heads; a carriage; and a control device. The control device is configured to perform: (a) selecting; (b) setting; and (c) executing. The (a) selecting sets one of the first and second heads as an active head. The (b) setting sets an operation mode to one of a plurality of modes including first and second modes. The (c) ex...