US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on June 16 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,720, issued on June 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Kusano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Narita (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tano (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiteru Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor that has a surface layer in which a transmittance of light having a wavelength of 1,000 nm is 5% or more and 95% or less, a charging device that charges a surface of the photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic laten...