ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,224, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, method for controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yugo Mochizuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuto Kajiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure aims to reduce bleeding occurring near a border between image regions with different color ink densities. An embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus having a printhead ejecting a color ink and a reaction liquid reacting with the color ink and an application amount control unit that controls a reaction liquid application amount by, in ima...