ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,149, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that corrects image forming positions" was invented by Takuya Hayakawa (Saitama, Japan) and Naoto Watanabe (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is configured to, based on a reading result of a test image, generate data that is used to adjust image forming positions of toner images to be formed by an image forming unit, control an image forming position of a first toner image to be formed by the image forming unit in a first contact state based on first data, the first toner image being transferred to a first sheet, ...