US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Inkjet printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,592, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inkjet printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Sonoko Egawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Murayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The amount of ink in a cap at the time of end of printing initiated by a print command is estimated, and it is determined whether an open suction action is to be performed based on the estimated post-printing ink amount to prevent spillover of the ink and reduce downtime due to the open suction action."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/058,072.

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