ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,369, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium to reduce a size of a printing apparatus without a deterioration in productivity of double-sided printing" was invented by Masaaki Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan), Haruo Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoichi Kan (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisei Hakamata (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoyuki Taguchi (Tokyo), Takahiro Kiuchi (Tokyo), Yasunori Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yumi Mukoyama (Tokyo), Junichi Kubokawa (Nagasaki, Japan) and Kyosuke Kamishima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...