US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,193, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium" was invented by Takuma Nakamura (Tokyo), Masahiro Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Yanagi (Chiba, Japan), Junichi Ochi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kota Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus detects a first mark on a continuous sheet indicating a formation position of an image, prints a plurality of color planes corresponding to the image in an overlapping manner at the formation position, and prints a plurality of second marks corresponding to each of the plurality of color planes...