ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,220, issued on March 24, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system" was invented by Atsushi Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Nobuyasu Tamura (Hachioji, Japan), Shinichi Tsukamura (Uenohara, Japan), Masahiro Onodera (Hino, Japan) and Ryo Fujimitsu (Tachikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an image forming system including an object that is an element included in an image former that forms an image on a recording medium and that moves in a main scanning direction during an operation related to image formation based on a print job, a hardware processor that acquires position information of th...