US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 3 for "Light-emitting chip including plurality of light-emitting portions, and image-forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,841, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Light-emitting chip including plurality of light-emitting portions, and image-forming apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Akagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present invention, a light-emitting chip includes: a plurality of light-emitting portions and a drive circuit. The drive circuit includes: first to fourth transferring unit, a first switch configured to switch between a first state in which start signals output by the fourth and third transferring units are output to the second and first transferring unit, respectively, and a second s...