ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,297, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Detecting output error using inline scanner" was invented by Jihyo Kim (Pangyo, South Korea) and Heesang Kwon (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus that detects an error of an image formed on a printing medium, the apparatus includes a print engine, an inline scanner located at an output end of the print engine, and a processor. The processor is to obtain information of print data of a received print job, form an image on a printing medium based on the print data by using the print engine,...