US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 24 for "Charge removing apparatus of sheet in image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,886, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Charge removing apparatus of sheet in image forming apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakane (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application voltage value optimum for a toner use amount or an area of a region where toner is applied is to be set to avoid sticking of sheets. A method of controlling an image forming apparatus includes receiving a print job, performing print processing on a sheet based on the print job, and performing charge removing processing of the sheet based on a charge amount calculated fro...