ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,819, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Thermal printer" was invented by Takahide Takahashi (Tagata Shizuoka, Japan) and Fumiharu Iwasaki (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal printer includes a thermal head, a drive data generation unit, a clock generation unit, and a drive data supply unit. The thermal head is configured such that a large number of heating elements divided into a plurality of blocks are mounted thereon, and is configured to input drive data for driving the large number of heating elements to the plurality of blocks in parallel in synchronization with a plurality ...