ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,476, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a first conveyance path, a conveyance rol...