US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,436, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Kou Hiraike (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus that performs image formation by rotating a developing device in such a manner that a relative speed of the developing device with respect to a photosensitive drum is set to a first speed, the image forming apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a predetermined mode in which the relative speed of the developing device with respect to the photosensitive drum is set to a second speed higher than ...