ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,038, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and recording medium" was invented by Masashi Negishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Kiyokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present invention is a printing apparatus including: a print head including a plurality of nozzles configured to eject droplets onto a print medium; a control unit configured to control driving of each of the plurality of nozzles to eject the droplets; and an inspection unit configured to inspect whether or not each of the plurality of nozzles is able to eject the droplets normally ...