ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,108, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus with antimicrobial toner" was invented by Toru Oguma (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuhisa Shida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Toda (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet by forming a plurality of toner images using a plurality of types of toner, and transfer the plurality of toner images onto the sheet, or transfer the plurality of toner images onto the sheet via an intermediate transfer member; and a controller configured to control the forming unit to form a ...