US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Image forming system including varnish applying unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,401, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system including varnish applying unit" was invented by Toshiyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Masami Hano (Chiba, Japan), Shingo Hirota (Ibaraki, Japan), Taro Hanazato (Tokyo), Daisuke Katayama (Chiba, Japan) and Kyohei Kikuchi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system an image forming apparatus, a varnish applying apparatus, an input unit, a first image processing unit, and a second image processing unit. The image forming apparatus forms a toner image on a recording material on the basis of image data obtained...