US Patent Issued to TOSHIBA TEC on Sept. 23 for "Printer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,569, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printer" was invented by Hiroyuki Taki (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a conveyor, a print head, a platen roller, an actuator, and a controller. The platen roller applies a conveying force by rotating while pinching a medium between the platen roller and the print head. The controller is configured to: enable a saving mode in which the print head is moved to a first position when a first area of the medium passes, and the print head is moved to a second position when a second area of the medium passes; detect a difference b...