US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Sept. 8 for "Image inspection system using patch reading technique" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,402, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image inspection system using patch reading technique" was invented by Shoichi Nomura (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image inspection system includes: a hardware processor that controls image formation by an image former based on a read image generated by reading, by a reader, a medium on which a patch is formed, wherein the hardware processor causes the image former to form, on the medium, a patch corresponding to the medium."

The patent was filed on Oct. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/381,377.

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