US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus for controlling the preparatory operations" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,341, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus for controlling the preparatory operations" was invented by Hiroto Endo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuya Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus receives input data including device data and settings data from an external device and forms an image on a recording medium. The apparatus includes a processing device to perform a print operation including conveying the recording medium and forming an image on the recording medium, and a control unit to control the processing device so that a first preparatory operation ...