US Patent Issued to Ricoh on March 31 for "Image forming apparatus configured to apply a transfer bias to a transfer nip based on a plurality of transfer conditions, image forming method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,190, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus configured to apply a transfer bias to a transfer nip based on a plurality of transfer conditions, image forming method, and recording medium" was invented by Takayuki Isawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Akatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Akio Kosuge (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Nagata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearer, a transfer member disposed opposite the image bearer to form a transfer nip between the transfer memb...