ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,128, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Takahashi (Nagoya, Japan), Yasuo Nishikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshimitsu Taniguchi (Tajimi, Japan) and Kosuke Inuzuka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a container which accommodates a print medium; a conveyor which has a first conveying route and which conveys the print medium from the container in a conveying direction along the first conveying route; a printing unit which prints an image on the print medium conveyed in the first conveying route; and a dividing unit which ...