ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,351, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system" was invented by Daisuke Katayama (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Masami Hano (Chiba, Japan), Shingo Hirota (Ibaraki, Japan), Toshiyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Taro Hanazato (Tokyo) and Kyohei Kikuchi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a varnish applying apparatus, and a controller. A toner image formed on a recording material by the image forming apparatus on the basis of inputted first image data is a first toner image, and an image formed on the recording material by the...