ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,851, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Print inspection apparatus, print system, print inspection method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Tadashi Kitai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print inspection apparatus include circuitry that generates a difference image based on a comparison between a read image obtained by reading printed matter printed by a printer and a reference image, and inspects a defect of the printed matter using the difference image, a plurality of size thresholds, and a plurality of density thresholds corresponding to each of the plurality of s...