US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 25 for "Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,216, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and control method of printing apparatus" was invented by Yuki Igarashi (Tokyo), Ryu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masato Eiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a fixing unit configured to fix an image onto a printing medium by heating the printing medium on which the image is printed, a measuring unit configured to measure each of a length of the printing medium at a first temperature, a length of the printing medium after heating of the printing medium in the fixing unit at a second temperature being a gla...