US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Oct. 6 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,502, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Minoru Wada (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Yamazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Asami Sasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control portion stops driving a developer carrying member at the end of a development process for a preceding image to be printed on the last sheet of a preceding copy and starts driving the developer carrying member when performing a development process for a subsequent image to be printed on the first sheet of the subsequent copy. Regardless of the length of a development driving susp...