US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 15 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,900, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Takayanagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first photosensitive member and a second photosensitive member that can be charged to a predetermined polarity, an intermediate transfer belt, a first primary transfer member, a second primary transfer member, a first electrode member, a second electrode member, an application sections configured to apply biases having the same polarity as the predetermined polarity to the first and second electrode members, and a control section Th...