US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 23 for "Printing apparatus and control method for printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,567, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus and control method for printing apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Noda (Ogaki, Japan) and Atsushi Ito (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a printing apparatus including a head; an irradiator including a plurality of light source rows; a carriage; and a controller. The controller is configured to: execute a first obtaining operation of obtaining a gap between the irradiator and a printing medium; execute a discharging operation of discharging an ink from the head to the printing medium; execute an irradiating...