US Patent Issued to CANON on July 1 for "Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,684, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Ryo Kazumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an inspection apparatus that compares a reference image with a printed material that has been printed to perform inspection of the printed material, and a method of controlling the same. The inspection apparatus exclusively controls, as an inspection mode of the inspection, an inspection mode between a mode for switching a discharge destination of a printed material in which a defect is recognized, ...