ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,492, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Method and printer for printing on print media" was invented by Eduardus J. W. Van Vliembergen (Venlo, Netherlands) and Martinus G. M. Lange (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a printer including a transport device including an endless transport belt, supported on a pair of support rollers which between them define a medium support plane, over which medium support plane a print station is provided. The method includes transporting in parallel a plurality of individual print media perpendicular to a scanning...