US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Feb. 24 for "Image forming apparatus, image misalignment correction method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,883, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image misalignment correction method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Katsuhiko Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes image bearers including a first image bearer and a second image bearer and circuitry that corrects misalignment of images developed on the image bearers, transferred to a transfer member, and detected by a detector. The circuitry sequentially executes a first correction process and a second correction process. The first correction process includes correcting...