US Patent Issued to Kyocera Document Solutions on Sept. 1 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,396, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kyocera Document Solutions Inc. (Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Usui (Osaka, Japan), Hiroomi Nakatsuji (Osaka, Japan), Naoko Kawashima (Osaka, Japan) and Jun Nakano (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ejection malfunction nozzle detecting unit prints a test pattern on a print sheet using the recording head, and detects an ejection malfunction nozzle on the basis of a density distribution of a scanned image of the test pattern. Here, a resolution of the scanned image is lower than a resolution of the test pattern printed on the print sheet using the recordin...