US Patent Issued to CANON on May 12 for "Printing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,472, issued on May 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Kento Tamari (Saitama, Japan), Masashi Ito (Tokyo), Keisuke Arita (Tokyo), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), 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 control unit to perform first control of, while performing printing by a printing unit in a state in which a trailing end portion of a preceding print medium overlaps a leading end portion of a succeeding print medium, controlling a conveying unit to separate the preceding print medium ...