US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,625, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takuya Hayato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus to which a cartridge provided with a device including a memory is detachably mountable and in which an image is formed by using the cartridge mounted acquires first condition information which is image forming condition information and stores second condition information which is image forming condition information including a corresponding operation setting. A controller executes at least part of image formation control, using the first conditio...