ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,944, issued on April 21, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Printer, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions" was invented by Tetsuro Kobayashi (Chiryu, Japan) and Shuichi Tamaki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer is provided with a head, a platen, a conveyer, and a processor. The head performs printing on a print medium. The platen supports the print medium. The conveyer conveys the platen in a conveyance direction. The processor acquires a platen size. The platen size is a size of the platen in the conveyance direction. When the proce...