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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,470, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method for printing apparatus, and conveyance apparatus" was invented by Keisei Hakamata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Shindo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing unit configured to perform printing on a sheet, a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet to a print position of the printing unit, a motor configured to drive the conveying unit, and a control unit configured to control rotation of the motor. The control unit is capable of executing holding control of holding the motor at a stop positi...