ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,118, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Kita (Mishima, Japan) and Kazuhiro Funatani (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus has a normal image formation mode and a wide color gamut image formation mode in which an amount of a developer per unit area of a developer image of at least a color that differs from a prescribed color among a plurality of colors is increased as compared to the normal image formation mode. Image data is generated such that an image portion formed in the prescribed color in an image formed on a recording mat...