US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Printing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,053, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Kanto Kurasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus acquires characteristic information about a recording medium and executes a light quantity adjustment in a reading operation using a reading unit based on the acquired characteristic information. By using the above-described configuration, it is possible to prevent an increase in the number of processes for analyzing read data obtained by reading a test pattern."

The patent was filed on April 28, 2023, under Application ...