US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,396, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Daigo Hotomi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an intermediary transfer member, a secondary transfer member, a cleaning blade, first and second feeding portions, and a controller. In the case where a recording material feeding source is changed from the first feeding portion to the second feeding portion, when a position of a leading end of an untransferred toner image is an untransferred toner image leading end, and a position of a leading end of an image for...