ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,898, issued on May 26, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming control method and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masaaki Nishihara (Osaka, Japan) and Takenori Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor acquires a pair of first lateral edge positions when a first surface of a target sheet serves as a printing surface. The processor acquires a pair of second lateral edge positions when a second surface of the target sheet serves as a printing surface. The processor acquires matching scale information that specifies a matching scale image from among a plurality of fi...