ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,046, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system with detectors for detecting characteristic of recording medium, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Shingo Sasami (Hino, Japan) and Masaru Ohtsuka (Tachikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming system including: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium; a first characteristic detector that is provided on an upstream side of the image former in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and detects characteristic information corresponding to a characteristic of the recording...