US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Controlling exposure apparatus used in image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,840, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Controlling exposure apparatus used in image forming apparatus" was invented by Izuru Horiuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exposure head includes a substrate on which light sources are mounted, and a condensing optical system. A memory stores a profile indicating correction gains for exposure amounts. A sensor detects a temperature. A processor acquires a correction gain that corresponds to a position of a light source that reached an exposure timing, corrects, for each of the light sources, an exposure amount of the light source with the correction gain corres...