ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,840, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus, and method for controlling recording apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kengo Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunya Sunouchi (Tokyo), Masahiro Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Nakaya (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Yanagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a recording apparatus for performing recording onto a continuous sheet to be conveyed, for starting conveyance of the continuous sheet, control is started so that with a first conveyance roller for conveying the continuous sheet on the upstream side of a recording portion in a ...