ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,192, issued on May 20, was assigned to ROLAND DG Corp. (Shizuoka, Japan).
"Printer and printing method" was invented by Sho Matsumoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a print carriage including an ink head, a sub-carriage movable relative to the print carriage, a mount surface where a medium is to be mounted, a dryer to dry an ink ejected from the ink head onto the medium. The sub-carriage includes a temperature sensor and is movable relative to the print carriage to measure a temperature on or above the mount surface using the temperature sensor. The dryer is adjusted such that the temperature to b...