US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,678, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method of image forming apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Koji Yasuzaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus, a control method of the image forming apparatus, and a storage medium can suppress occurrence of a wasteful operation and perform a rewinding operation of an optimal amount. To this end, after stop of printing by the image forming apparatus, a print status at print start is obtained, and a rewinding distance of a roll paper is set based on the obtained print status.Then, a paper conv...