ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,809, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Hiroshi Tsuchimoto (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer driven by power of a battery, the printer including a thermal head including a plurality of heating elements arranged along a direction perpendicular to a conveying direction, a drive unit to supply power to the thermal head to drive the thermal head, and a processor to control driving and perform printing on the recording medium according to printing data, in which the processor calculates, based on a state of its own printer, a printing cycle related to print...