US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 4 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,336, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasutomo Furuta (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an exposure head including a light emitting portion that includes a first electrode layer including a plurality of electrodes that are two-dimensionally arranged in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, a light emitting layer stacked on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer through which light is transmissible; and a controller configured to control a voltage applied to each of the plurality of electrode...