US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,711, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a circulating member to be made to circulate while carrying a toner image on a peripheral surface; a transfer member configured to nip at a nip part a recording medium that is transported and the circulating member and to transfer the toner image on the circulating member to the recording medium with a voltage being applied to the transfer member; and a controller configured to control a transfer scheme in accord...