ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,155, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Haruhisa Shirai (Kasugai, Japan), Yuta Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan), Shoji Sato (Okazaki, Japan), Nobumasa Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Masahiro Hoga (Ogaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The controller moves a movable body along a moving direction. A recording head and a detector are mounted on the movable body. The detector detects a detection target fixed to an ink receiving unit. The ink receiving unit receives an ink jetted from the recording head at a time of a flushing. The controller obtains, based on a signal...