ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,521, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Inspection apparatus and method of controlling the same, and storage medium, that convert stored first reference image usable in job to be inspected to second reference image corresponding to the job" was invented by Takeshi Shinya (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inspection apparatus performs first image processing on image data used in printing the image, and stores image data for which the first image processing has been performed as a reference image. The inspection apparatus determines whether a first reference image corresponding to a reference image...