US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Image forming apparatus that forms antibacterial region on recording material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,112, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that forms antibacterial region on recording material" was invented by Atsushi Toda (Shizuoka, Japan), Toru Oguma (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazuhisa Shida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus may include a holding container that holds a toner containing an antibacterial agent, and an image forming unit that forms an antibacterial region by applying the toner supplied from the holding container to a recording material by performing an image forming process. The antibacterial region is formed on a partial region that i...