US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Image forming apparatus for adjusting position and size of image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,373, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus for adjusting position and size of image" was invented by Teppei Nagata (Chiba, Japan), Tomohito Nakagawa (Chiba, Japan) and Yukihiro Soeta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an adjustment pattern on a sheet; a reading device provided further downstream than a fixing member in a conveyance direction, and configured to read the sheet on which the adjustment pattern has been fixed by the fixing member; and a processor configured to: detect a length, in the convey...