ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,445, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kiyoharu Kakomura (Chiba, Japan), Takuya Machida (Chiba, Japan), Masashi Yokoyama (Saitama, Japan) and Itsuki Nishida (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet based on a mode selected from a plurality of modes having different image forming speeds, a memory to store first data for a first mode included in the plurality of modes, the first data indicating a correspondence for the first mode between a type of the sheet and the image forming speed...