ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,721, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SATO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printer, printing control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takuma Hirafuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention provides a printer configured to print on a print medium. The printer includes a thermal head and a control unit. The thermal head has a plurality of heating elements that are arranged in a line. The control unit is configured to control thermal energy to be applied to the plurality of heating elements, in accordance with information based on image data. The information includes whether to apply a pulse of energizin...