ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,278, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Recording apparatus and control method" was invented by Sae Mogi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuo Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Masataka Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Murase (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Taira (Tokyo) and Hiroshi Kawafuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes recording elements to eject ink, heating elements to heat the ink, and a common wiring through which the recording elements and the heating elements are applied with a voltage. The recording apparatus determines a drive pulse applied to the recording el...