ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,210, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming device" was invented by Suguru Kurita (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes a communication device that communicates with a wireless tag, and an image former that forms a developer image on a surface of a photoreceptor via a transfer belt. The image former includes a transferor that transfers the developer image from the transfer belt to a medium, and a transmitter configured to transmit the medium to the transferor. The image forming device includes a controller communicably coupled to the image former. T...