US Patent Issued to Canon on May 12 for "Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,878, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masashi Ito (Tokyo), Keisuke Arita (Tokyo), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Kento Tamari (Saitama, Japan), Sho Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Komatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, first and second conveyance units conveying a print medium, and a control unit performing reduction control to reduce an overlap amount between a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium by using a speed difference. In a first case in which a trailing end of the...