ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,481, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system" was invented by Tomoki Matsuda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kenji Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each adhesive toner image is formed so that at least one of the adhesive toner image bonding a front cover and a middle page together and the adhesive toner image bonding a back cover and a middle page together becomes greater in area than the adhesive toner image bonding the middle pages together when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a surface of a recording material, and a booklet is generated so that the adhesive toner image bond...