ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,806, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Naoya Takesue (Tokyo) and Hisashi Ishikawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus for generating image data for recording in a recording apparatus including a recording unit having a plurality of nozzles discharging ink, includes a converting unit which converts, based on characteristic information according to a characteristic of each nozzle included in the recording unit, image data correspon...