ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,810, issued on July 21, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that performs image corrections based on test images and control method for image forming apparatus" was invented by Ken Iguchi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan), Suguru Kurita (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan) and Satoshi Araki (Mishima Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a scanning device, and a controller. The image forming device forms a first test image and forms a second test image. The scanning device scans the first test image with a first amount of emitted...