ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,906, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroomi Nakatsuji (Osaka, Japan), Jun Nakano (Osaka, Japan), Masato Usui (Osaka, Japan) and Naoko Kawashima (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A black-generation-and-UCR processing unit generates image data of a black ink color from image data of chromatic ink colors of the image and adjusts values of the image data of the chromatic ink colors correspondingly to generation of the image data of the black ink color. An image outputting unit causes a printing device to perform printing based on the image...