US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Aug. 25 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,257, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium" was invented by Wataru Watanabe (Hachioji, Japan), Tomo Kitada (Yokohama, Japan), Keiki Katsumata (Hachioji, Japan), Kei Okamura (Yokohama, Japan), Tomohiro Mikami (Mitaka, Japan) and Miyuki Katou (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium that includes unevenness on a surface thereof; a reader that reads a pattern image formed on the recording medium by the image former; and a hardware processor. The...