US Patent Issued to Canon on June 10 for "Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,231, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing apparatus" was invented by Naoki Wakayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a first discharge path that discharges a sheet and a second discharge path different from the first discharge path. An angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the second discharge path and a conveyance direction of a conveyance roller is less than an angle difference between a direction in which the sheet is discharged in the first discharge path and the conveyance direc...