ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,411, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Takuya Hamada (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a printing unit configured to print an image by discharging ink to the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a heating unit configured to heat the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit and to which the image has been printed by the printing unit, and a control unit configured to, in a case of double-side printing in which after printing an image on a first side of ...