US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,940, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus" was invented by Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Masaaki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichi Kubokawa (Nagasaki, Japan), Yasunori Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yumi Mukoyama (Tokyo), Takahiro Kiuchi (Tokyo), Kyosuke Kamishima (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruo Uchida (Tokyo), Keisei Hakamata (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shoichi Kan (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, and first, second, and third conveyance paths. The printing unit performs printing at a...