ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,250, issued on July 28, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printer converting character code included in print data into character code of prescribed character encoding system to generate raster data" was invented by Kenshiro Nakajima (Kani, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller included in a printer performs a specific process when print data includes a print-data character code. The specific process is to: specify a print-data character encoding system describing the print-data character code; and determine whether the print-data character encoding system is a prescribed character encoding system. When...