ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,603, issued on March 31, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Inuzuka (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroaki Takahashi (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshimitsu Taniguchi (Tajimi, Japan) and Yasuo Nishikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a printing part having an installment part in which a cartridge usable for printing an image is installable, the printing part being configured to print the image on a print medium and configured to move to an exchange position in a scanning direction; and a processing unit having a processing part configured to move while ...