ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,674, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus, method, and medium" was invented by Jumpei Jogo (Tokyo), Naoko Baba (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuji Konno (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshitomo Marumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shin Genta (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Ushiyama (Chiba, Japan), Yumi Shimokodachi (Kanagawa, Japan), Serena Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taichi Yokokawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus that causes less degradation of image quality due to blurring caused by dot misalignment between an ink containing a coloring material and a reaction liquid includes a recording un...