ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,617, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Guangzhou Pulisi Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).

"Print control device" was invented by Zhenhua Meng (Guangdong, China), Shengwang Liu (Guangdong, China), Xiaobo Lin (Guangdong, China) and Lu Liu (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print control device comprises a linear modular component, a driving mechanism, and at least one guide rail. The guide rail and the linear modular component are arranged in parallel, and the driving mechanism is disposed on one end of the linear modular component. A group of sensors are respectively disposed at two ends of the linear modular ...