US Patent Issued to Toshiba Tec on June 16 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,721, issued on June 16, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Suguru Kurita (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan) and Ken Iguchi (Numazu Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus supplies toner to a photoreceptor on which an electrostatic latent image is formed. A toner sensor of the image forming apparatus outputs a signal corresponding to the amount of adhering toner on an image carrier to which the toner is transferred from the photoreceptor. A memory of the image forming apparatus stores a target value including a correction value of image...