US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 10 for "Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, inspection system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,144, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, inspection system, and storage medium" was invented by Yuki Daiku (Chiba, Japan) and Masashi Oya (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an inspection apparatus operable to read an image formed on a printing medium by a printing apparatus and inspect the read image. The inspection apparatus stores image data used at the time of forming the image on a printing medium as a reference image, obtains image data of an image of a printing medium on which the reference image has been formed ...