ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,401, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection system and method of controlling the same, and storage medium that determine whether a continuous image defect has occurred" was invented by Riko Miura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection system including a printing apparatus, an inspection apparatus, and controllers to cause a reading device to read a printed matter, for which the printing apparatus has printed an image on a recording sheet, to obtain image data, to obtain a shift amount between a preceding first recording sheet and a following second recording sheet in a direction orthogona...