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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,043, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Kanto Kurasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus, which prints on a sheet supplied from a rolled sheet and takes up the sheet in a roll shape, includes a splice detection unit configured to detect a splice portion of the sheet, a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet, a meandering correction unit including a sensor unit configured to detect a sheet end portion of the sheet in a width direction of the sheet on a downstream side of the splice detection unit and configured to corr...