ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,906, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and image forming method" was invented by Masaru Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Makoto Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Yasuaki Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan), Ayato Morikami (Osaka, Japan), Yukiko Kotani (Osaka, Japan) and Atsuki Ito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, an adjustment processing portion allows, in a case where a printing type of a print process to be executed by a print processing portion is changed from either monochrome or color printing, a condition adjustment process of adjusting a...