ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,582, issued on May 13, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus and method for determining" was invented by Hajime Usami (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus, having a plurality of heads, a plurality of head controlling circuits, a master transmitter, and a determining unit, is provided. The head controlling circuits are connected to the heads in one-to-one correspondence and are connected with one another serially. Each head controlling circuit controls a corresponding one of the heads to record a part of the image based on master data. The master transmitter transmit...