US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Light scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,839, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Light scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryota Sato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light scanning apparatus according to the present embodiments includes a deflecting unit configured to deflect a first light flux to scan a first scanned surface in a main scanning direction, a first imaging optical system configured to guide the first light flux deflected by the deflecting unit to the first scanned surface, a light receiving element configured to receive the first light flux deflected by the deflecting unit without the first imagi...