ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,025, issued on May 6, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Yoshimitsu Taniguchi (Tajimi, Japan) and Isao Kobayashi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a holder which holds printing media, a conveying unit which conveys each of the printing media picked up from the holder, along a conveyance direction, a printing unit which prints an image on the printing media, a first detecting unit which detects a front end and a rear end in the conveyance direction of each of the printing media conveyed by the conveying unit, a processing unit which process...