ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,233, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Watanabe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit 81 determines nozzles corresponding to an image to be printed, correspondingly to a position of a print sheet, and causes a recording head to eject ink from its nozzles. A correction processing unit 83 performs a correction process corresponding to each of plural ink ejection malfunction positions in the aforementioned image. Further, the correction processing unit 83 prints a test pattern using the recording head 1a, 1b, 1c or 1d, det...