ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,150, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus having blurring supression" was invented by Takashi Hiramatsu (Tokyo) and Kazunari Hagiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus a period between a first image forming operation and a second image forming operation is a non-image forming period, and a developing unit is moved from a second position to a first position in a moving operation after the developing unit is moved from the first position to the second position in the non-image forming period in a case in which the consumption amount of the toner is e...