ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,823, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Shoichi Zensai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Nakaya (Tokyo) and Yohei Kusano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a dryer unit including an intake port, a heater unit to heat outside air taken in through the intake port, an air blower unit to perform an air blowing operation, a return port to allow an inflow of part of the heated outside air blown to the print sheet, and a temperature detector unit to detect a temperature inside the dryer unit. In the air blowing operation, the returned part of...