ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,351, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takuya Fukasawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Takatoshi Nakano (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Takahashi (Tama, Japan) and Yoshinori Nakagawa (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a print head having an ejection port surface with an ejection port for ejecting liquid, a printing element to generate energy for ejecting the liquid, a pressure chamber provided between the printing element and the ejection port, a first flow path in communication with the pressure chamber, and a se...