US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 4 for "Recording apparatus capable of changing a height of a recording head and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,274, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Recording apparatus capable of changing a height of a recording head and control method thereof" was invented by Kazuhisa Fujino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recording apparatus includes discharge rollers configured to perform a discharge operation of discharging a recording medium on which an image has been recorded by a recording head to the outside of the recording apparatus, and a height-change member configured to change a height of the recording head in parallel with the discharging operation."

The patent was filed on Sept. 26, 2023, under Applicat...