US Patent Issued to Canon on June 16 for "Printing apparatus, controlling method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,472, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, controlling method, and storage medium" was invented by Kei Yoshizawa (Tokyo) and Kazuki Narumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a printing apparatus, a controlling method, and a storage medium capable of outputting high-quality images. To this end, the air blow condition for the air blow unit during printing is varied with a light-shielding ink laminating print mode, which is a print mode, and the effect of cockling on the print medium taken into account in addition to the wettability of the print medium."

The patent...