US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Image forming apparatus and method with divider region for dividing roll-shaped printing medium into obtained number of rolls" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,036, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and method with divider region for dividing roll-shaped printing medium into obtained number of rolls" was invented by Cho Ryo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus, comprises: a setting unit configured to set a divider region in a group of images that are continuously printed during feeding from a feeding apparatus in which a roll-shaped printing medium has been set, the divider region being for separating the roll-shaped printing medium into a plurality of rolls. The setting unit sets the divider region based ...