ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,980, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus and printing method" was invented by Takashi Kobayashi (Nagano, Japan) and Atsushi Goto (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus includes a printing head, a control unit, and a reading unit, and the printing apparatus forms a test pattern for correcting printing characteristics on the medium and corrects the printing characteristics based on a reading result of the test pattern obtained by the reading unit. The control unit acquires moire characteristics information for determining whether moire of a reading density due to...