ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,240, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Conveyance control device, conveyance control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions" was invented by Kodai Mizuno (Hekinan, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan), Shuichi Tamaki (Nagoya, Japan), Akira Shinoda (Obu, Japan) and Kenji Sato (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance control device includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to control a conveyor. The conveyor is configured to convey a platen from a conveyance start position of the platen to one of a p...