US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on May 19 for "Printing apparatus, reading method, and reading apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,685, issued on May 19, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, reading method, and reading apparatus" was invented by Atsushi Goto (Matsumoto, Japan) and Takashi Kobayashi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, a reading unit, and a storage unit, forms a test pattern for correcting a printing characteristic onto a medium, and corrects the printing characteristic based on a reading result of the test pattern by the reading unit. The reading unit reads a density of a printing surface on the medium in units of reading resolution in a first re...