ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,202, issued on May 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Inkjet recording apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Ueda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance belt, a recording head, a control portion, an interval detection sensor, a thickness detection reference member, and a storage portion. The control portion is capable of executing an interval detection mode, a thickness calculation mode, and a landing timing correction mode. In the landing timing correction mode, the control portion sets the landing timing to be equal to a reference landing timi...