ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,805, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method for printing apparatus" was invented by Yuhei Oikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Yasutani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium in a conveyance direction; a first printing head configured to eject a first liquid onto the printing medium conveyed by the conveyance unit in a state where a distance between a first ejection surface where ejection ports are formed and the printing medium corresponds to a first distance; and a plurality of second...