ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,201, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Yoshiaki Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Hiromasa Yoneyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryohei Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Itaru Wada (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohito Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsutomu Obata (Tokyo), Noriyuki Aoki (Tokyo) and Yasuyuki Asai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus that includes a holding unit configured to hold a roll sheet performs supplying the sheet by rotating the roll sheet held by the holding unit; nipping and conveying the supplied sheet; performing printing on the conveyed sheet; detectin...