US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 29 for "Image forming apparatus and controlling method for the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,451, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and controlling method for the same" was invented by Hiroshi Yamamizu (Matsudo, 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 image on a sheet based on image data, a control unit configured to control driving of the image forming unit, and a power supply unit configured to, if a factor for shifting from a power saving state to a standby state is detected, supply power to the image forming unit and the control unit. If a first type of factor is detected as the factor in the power...