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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,851, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus and identification method" was invented by Keiji Kuriyama (Saitama, Japan), Hidehiko Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Wada (Tokyo), Fumihiro Goto (Kanagawa, Japan), Hajime Nagai (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Nishioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Shin Genta (Kanagawa, Japan) and Serena Yoshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To print high-definition images, an embodiment of the present invention provides a printing apparatus including: a printing unit configured to print an image on a printing medium by applying a first liquid containing a colorant and...