US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 18 for "Printing apparatus and a method of controlling a printing apparatus including a control unit controlling a cleaning operation of a wiping unit wiping an ejection port surface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,744, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and a method of controlling a printing apparatus including a control unit controlling a cleaning operation of a wiping unit wiping an ejection port surface" was invented by Rie Takekoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimitsu Danzuka (Tokyo), Akihiro Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan), Akiko Aichi (Tokyo), Keita Ishimi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroto Kango (Tokyo), Taku Yokozawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuo Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus including a print head ejecting ink, flowing from a first channel into a pressure chamber, from a no...