ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,708, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Takakazu Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kota Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiaki Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Kengo Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit arranged on an upstream side of a printing unit with respect to a conveyance direction of a print medium and configured to convey the print medium to the printing unit, and a control unit configured to, after a start of printing of the print mediu...