US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,404, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Tada (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Teraji (Tokyo), Takahiro Daikoku (Tokyo) and Masato Eiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing medium; a conveying unit configured to convey the printing medium on which the image is printed in a conveyance direction; a fixing unit configured to fix the image onto the printing medium by heating the printing medium on which the i...