ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,371, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Inspection apparatus, inspection method, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Tsujita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection apparatus detects a defect of an image formed by scanning a sheet with an image formed thereon conveyed from an image forming unit, wherein the detecting the defect is to detect a defect at an inspection level decided based on sheet management information for linking an inspection level with sheet information and sheet information of the sheet with the image formed thereon."
The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2024, under App...