ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,203, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Liquid ejection apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Takafumi Nakase (Nagoya, Japan), Nobumasa Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuji Horata (Gamagori, Japan), Masahiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Zenichiro Sasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Kenta Horade (Tokai, Japan) and Isao Kubo (Tokoname, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head; a signal outputter configured to output an ejection state signal; and a controller. The ejection state signal is a first or second ejection state signal, the ...