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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,039, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, method for controlling printing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Masaharu Shimakawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a detection unit that is arranged to face an ejecting surface on which a plurality of nozzles of a printing head that ejects liquid droplets are arrayed, and detects an ejecting condition of the liquid droplets; a recovery unit that recovers an ejecting condition of nozzles of the printing head; and a control unit that determines whether to perform or skip inspection of the ejectin...