ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,170, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Katsuo Mikashima (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line sensor includes plural sensor chips and a gap between adjacent two sensor chips. In a test pattern image, a thin line is formed by ink ejected from a nozzle. Further, the line sensor scans the test pattern image on a sheet slanted from a transportation direction of the sheet and generates a test pattern scanned image. An ejection malfunction determination unit determines densities at at least two secondary-scanning-directional positions at a pri...