US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 30 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,769, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiko Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Shotaro Hoshi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Tawada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirofumi Fujii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, an image forming unit, a transferor, a cleaner, and circuitry. The image bearer is movable in a moving direction at multiple linear speeds. The image forming unit contacts the image bearer to form one or more patterns on the image bearer with toner. The transferor contacts the image bearer to form a transfer ni...