ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,764, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus that can perform light amount calibration to adjust the density of a half tone image" was invented by Jun Nakai (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, an optical scanning device, an image density sensor, and a control unit. The optical scanning device scans the surface of the image carrying member with light emitted from light sources to form an electrostatic latent image. The control unit can perform light amount calibration to adjust the exposure amount ...