ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,546, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SCREEN Holdings Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Image formation apparatus and method of forming an image" was invented by Kazuna Sawada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for predicting the amount of misregistration accurately in a short time is provided. A measurement part acquires measurement data for each of a plurality of measurement items about a state of printing paper. A first reasoner infers the amount of misregistration between a first image formed by an ejection head and a second image formed by an ejection head, based on the measurement data on the plurality of meas...