US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,882, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, printing method, and storage medium" was invented by Naoko Baba (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayoshi Kikuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Honda (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Yoshitoku (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Kawafuji (Tokyo), Shunsuke Kakei (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiro Mouri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus controls an ejection timing of a printing unit such that a first distance becomes shorter than a second distance, where the first and second distances are distances in a scanning direction between a landing position at which an ink ...