US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, printing system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,917, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, method of controlling printing apparatus, printing system, and storage medium" was invented by Toshiyuki Kuroda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus to be provided to a user based on a contract and to be returned by transportation arranged by the user after cancellation of the contract includes a control unit that performs control based on cancellation of the contract by the user in such a way as to carry out a transportation preparatory operation being a preparatory operation to be carried out before the transportation and includes...