US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Aug. 19 for "Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,380, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method for controlling printing apparatus" was invented by Shingo Todaka (Matsumoto, Japan) and Ryota Kondo (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a printing apparatus including a communication section configured to communicate with an external apparatus and receive print data and a cut command, a connector configured to be coupled to any one of a first peripheral apparatus and a second peripheral apparatus, a head, a cutter, and a control section configured to control the head and the cutter, in which the control section i...