US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,549, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus" was invented by Koki Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuichi Tokuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Emoto (Tokyo) and Hideyasu Ishihara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a first path conveying a printing medium from a manual-feed stacking unit to a printing unit; a second path converging with the first path at a converging section and conveying a printing medium from a cassette; a first roller pair provided downstream of the converging section on th...