ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,467, issued on May 12, was assigned to ROHM Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Thermal print head" was invented by Yasuyuki Aritaki (Kyoto, Japan), Toshio Watanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuya Nakakubo (Kyoto, Japan) and Takamichi Otani (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a thermal print head. The thermal print head includes: a substrate; a glaze layer, disposed on the substrate; and a wiring layer, disposed on the glaze layer. The wiring layer includes a plurality of bonding pads. The plurality of bonding pads are divided into a plurality of groups. Each of the plurality of groups includes a first bonding pa...