ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,303, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Charge eliminating apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Yuma Inui (Ibaraki, Japan), Shingo Iwami (Tokyo), Koji Suzuki (Chiba, Japan) and Keisuke Mogi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge eliminating apparatus includes a conveyance path configured to convey a sheet with an image formed thereon by an image forming apparatus, a non-contact charge eliminating device having an ion generation unit configured to generate ions and a control unit configured to control the ion generation unit, the non-contact charge eliminating device being configured ...