ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,856, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunsuke Matsushita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroko Katagiri (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, in which: a charging member charges an image bearing member; an exposure unit exposes a surface of the image bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image; and a developer image on the image bearing member is transferred onto a recording material. A control portion is capable of executing a first operation mode for rotating the image bearing member at a first perip...