ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,648, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OKI ELECTRIC INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Taiga Ooyoshi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kojima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming portion configured to form a brilliant developer image with a brilliant developer; a second image forming portion including at least one image forming portion configured to form a developer image with at least one non-brilliant developer; and a controller configured to control operation of the first image forming portion and the second image forming portion in accordance with re...