US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 18 for "Nail printing apparatus, nail printing method, and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,015, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Nail printing apparatus, nail printing method, and printing apparatus" was invented by Kohei Ogi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique capable of correcting the inclination of a light in the height direction to suppress deterioration in the printing quality is to be provided. Regarding a detecting unit capable of detecting a placed nail portion by use of a light whose distance in a predetermined direction is maintained to a predetermined distance, a correction value for correcting the deviation of the nail portion from a position corresponding to the p...