US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 27 for "Inkjet printing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,846, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inkjet printing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Tomoki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inkjet printing apparatus, nozzle data for a complementary nozzle different from a discharge failure nozzle is modified so as to complement nozzle data for the discharge failure nozzle. A part of the nozzle data for a plurality of nozzles included in a plurality of nozzle rows is thinned out and the remaining nozzle data is transferred to the printhead. The complementary nozzle discharges ink toward a target position on a print ...