US Patent Issued to CANON on July 15 for "Printing apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,306, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method" was invented by Keisuke Arita (Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Ito (Tokyo), Kento Tamari (Saitama, Japan), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Sho Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Komatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a control unit that reduces an overlap amount of a preceding print medium and a succeeding print medium, from an overlap state in which the succeeding print medium overlaps a trailing edge of the preceding print medium and alternately performs an operation of conveying a print medium by a first ...