ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,027, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printer and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Masayoshi Fujii (Okazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a printing device and a controller. The controller of the printer acquires image data and detects character data indicating a character from the acquired image data. Further, the controller adds a broken line along an outline of the character indicated by the detected character data. The controller generates a multivalued image with multiple values based on an image including the character with the bro...