US Patent Issued to Oki Electric Industry on July 21 for "Image formation apparatus and image formation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,808, issued on July 21, was assigned to Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image formation apparatus and image formation method" was invented by Takenori Shimada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a non-lustrous image formation unit; a lustrous image formation unit; and a controller configured to control the non-lustrous image formation unit to form a non-lustrous image of a non-lustrous developer on a first surface of a medium, and the lustrous image formation unit to form a lustrous image of a lustrous developer including a first region and a second regio...