ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,421, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method for the same, and storage medium" was invented by Ryou Sakaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Hiroyuki Eda (Ibaraki, Japan), Yuya Ohta (Chiba, Japan), Shin Iwasaki (Chiba, Japan) and Yuga Yamauchi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image forming apparatus for performing an image adjustment in a monochrome image formation mode. In a case where color information for subsequent images includes a color image, the image forming apparatus does not perform an image adjustment in the monochrome image formation mode. Rather, image ...