US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on April 7 for "Media detection apparatus, image forming system, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,319, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Media detection apparatus, image forming system, and recording medium" was invented by Akimasa Ishikawa (Hino, Japan), Hitoshi Asano (Toyokawa, Japan), Yumiko Izumiya (Hachioji, Japan), Yasuo Koyanagi (Hachioji, Japan) and Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media detection apparatus for detecting moisture information corresponding to a moisture amount or a moisture percentage of a sheet, the media detection apparatus comprising: a light emitter that emits light; a light receiver that receives the light reflected off the sheet or t...