US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Printing apparatus having drying unit and drying control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,491, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus having drying unit and drying control method" was invented by Yusuke Nakaya (Tokyo), Masahiro Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryosuke Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kengo Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunya Sunouchi (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Yanagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet printing apparatus includes a printing unit to print on a printing medium and a drying unit to dry the printing medium. The drying unit includes an air blower having an entry and an exit, a heater to heat air from the blower exit, a casing, first and second collection paths, and...