US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "Printing apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,231, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method" was invented by Yasunori Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaaki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Junichi Kubokawa (Nagasaki, Japan), Yumi Suzuki (Tokyo), Takahiro Kiuchi (Tokyo), Kyosuke Kamishima (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruo Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisei Hakamata (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shoichi Kan (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing unit performing printing by applying ink to a print medium conve...