US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 30 for "Control method of image forming apparatus to determine cleaning portion performance, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,770, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control method of image forming apparatus to determine cleaning portion performance, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yohei Wakasa (Osaka, Japan) and Keiya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor (81) acquires an output image concentration that is a detection concentration of a concentration detection portion (5) for a first toner image. The processor (81) causes a cleaning portion (45) to execute toner recovery processing when a second toner image passes through a recovery member (451). The processor (81) c...