ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,571, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kenji Kubozono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a printing medium, a printing unit, a support member, a detection unit, and a control unit. The detection unit emits light in a direction toward a surface of the support member supporting the printing medium and outputs information indicating an amount of light that is reflected The control unit performs setting related to the detection unit output to set output from the detection unit such t...