US Patent Issued to Canon on April 29 for "Image forming apparatus which supplies yellow toner as protective agent to secondary transfer member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,593, issued on April 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus which supplies yellow toner as protective agent to secondary transfer member" was invented by Koji An (Saitama, Japan) and Keisuke Ishizumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a supplying member for supplying a protective agent applied onto a surface of the transfer member, and a controller capable of controlling the supplying member. In a state in which the transfer member contacts the image bearing member during non-image formation outside of image formation...