US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Image forming apparatus for forming-adjustment image on sheet" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,703, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus for forming-adjustment image on sheet" was invented by Kenichi Hirota (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming condition, a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet having a pattern image formed thereon by the image forming unit to a conveyance path, the pattern image including a plurality of patch images and a trigger image used for controlling a reading timing for each of the plurality of patch images, a reading unit ...