ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,140, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image recording apparatus" was invented by Masatomo Yamaguchi (Inazawa, Japan) and Yuya Tatematsu (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image recording apparatus includes a conveyer configured to convey a sheet-like medium along a conveying path in a conveying direction, a recorder configured to record an image on the sheet-like medium conveyed by the conveyer, a cutter unit including one or more cutters and configured to cut the sheet-like medium in the conveying path, and a scanning mechanism configured to move at least one of the one or more cu...