ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,407, issued on Sept. 1, 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 Kenshi Mizote (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroyuki Shirasaki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printer includes a head ejecting ink from a nozzle, a platen including a placement surface on which a print medium is placed, a receiver receiving print data, and a processor. The platen moves in a movement direction between a setting position where the print medium is placed on the placement surface and a printing position where the pl...