ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,168, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Toshiaki Somano (Tokyo), Kosuke Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan), Norio Sakurai (Tokyo), Yuki Emoto (Tokyo) and Kentaro Muro (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a technique that enables proper sorting of discharged print media by suppressing curling of each of the print media sufficiently. A determining unit determines a curling suppressing operation to be executed such that in a case where sorting operation is executed, the suppressing operation having a higher effect of suppressing curling is executed than in...