ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,551, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus with support plate including air inlet and air vent" was invented by Satoru Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Yuzuru Yuasa (Osaka, Japan), Noriaki Furukawa (Osaka, Japan), Yuko Yano (Osaka, Japan) and Shimon Tasaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a recording head that ejects droplets onto a recording medium; an endless belt that conveys the recording medium toward a position where an image is to be formed on the recording medium by the recording head; a support plate that supports the...