US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Image forming apparatus that performs shading correction to maintain print position accuracy" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,741, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that performs shading correction to maintain print position accuracy" was invented by Koji Yumoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Takashi Yokoya (Saitama, Japan), Toshifumi Oikawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Yutaka Ando (Ibaraki, Japan), Akinobu Nishikata (Chiba, Japan), Riki Fukuhara (Chiba, Japan) and Yuichiro Oda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a reading unit, a reference member, and a controller is described. The image forming unit forms an image and a detection image on a sheet. ...