US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Feb. 24 for "Image forming apparatus determining a voltage-current characteristic of an applied member" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,877, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus determining a voltage-current characteristic of an applied member" was invented by Hiromu Aso (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor that determines a first voltage-current characteristic of an applied member on the basis of a detected current or a detected voltage detected by a detector when an applier applies a voltage or a current at one or more levels, the hardware processor controlling a detection time or the number of times of detection for detecting a detected current o...