US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,615, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Katahira (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image former forming a toner image; a transferer transferring the toner image on an image carrier to a recording medium by using a transfer electric field; and a processor to: calculate a voltage division ratio Gamma=Vp/Vm that is a ratio of a recording-medium divided voltage Vp when the recording medium passes in the transferer to a member divided voltage Vm applied to a member before the recording medium...