US Patent Issued to Seiko Instruments on April 14 for "Control device, printer apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,146, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seiko Instruments Inc. (Chiba, Japan).

"Control device, printer apparatus, and control method" was invented by Yoshio Kitamura (Chiba, Japan), Daisuke Yoshida (Chiba, Japan), Ryuji Uno (Chiba, Japan), Koichi Hatakeyama (Chiba, Japan), Hiroaki Kondo (Chiba, Japan), Ryota Naka (Chiba, Japan) and Takahiro Hisada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes: a print data acquisition unit configured to acquire print data, which is formed of a plurality of lines and indicates a coloration state of each pixel included in the plurality of lines; a head drive unit configured ...