ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,194, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Thermal printer" was invented by Yoji Sato (Izunokuni Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal printer that forms an image on a medium by a thermal head having a heat generating element includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the thermal head; a head lifting motor configured to switch the thermal head between a head down state in which the thermal head can form an image on the medium and a head up state in which the thermal head is separated from the medium; and an MPU configured to determine whether a measurement temperatu...