ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,075, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. (Saitama, Japan).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Shin Goto (Ichikawa, Japan), Hiroki Kurosu (Matsudo, Japan), Kiyotaka Henmi (Shiroi, Japan) and Yasutaka Iwasa (Zama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a tube-shaped print medium; a print head configured to perform printing on the tube-shaped print medium that is conveyed by the conveyance unit in a conveyance direction; a heater unit arranged on an upstream side relative to the print head in the conveyance direction and configured to include a m...