ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,406, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor causes a sheet conveying device to execute a process of conveying a target sheet in a state in which a specific surface on which a first test image including a plurality of black patch images arranged in a stepwise manner is formed serves as a printing surface. The processor supplies data of a second test image including a plurality of line segment images corresponding to the plurality of black patch...