US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 16 for "Controller, control method, and image recording device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,360, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Controller, control method, and image recording device" was invented by Shotaro Iida (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Taira (Ichinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a controller for an image recording device. The image recording device includes: a carriage capable of moving in a first direction; a head mounted on the carriage and configured to discharge a liquid from a nozzle; and a wiper capable of being impregnated with a cleaning liquid, a nozzle surface of the head including a first region not having the nozzle and a second region...