ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,909, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus" was invented by Kohei Fukui (Tokyo), Kota Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Takakazu Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a printing unit, a platen section facing the printing unit, a regulation unit arranged on a downstream side of the printing unit in the conveyance direction and configured to regulate a height position of the print medium, and a guide section arranged on a downstream side of the platen section. The guide section...