ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,908, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus, and control method" was invented by Akiyoshi Sahara (Chiba, Japan) and Kaede Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes: a cap member configured to be switched between a capped state in which an ink discharge port of a printhead is covered by the cap member and a non-capped state; a conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium to the printhead; and a cutting unit configured to cut the print medium on which an image is formed by the printhead. A cutting setting for operating the cutting unit can be set in adva...