ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,754, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and varnish applying apparatus" was invented by Shingo Hirota (Ibaraki, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Masami Hano (Chiba, Japan), Toshiyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Kyohei Kikuchi (Ibaraki, Japan), Daisuke Katayama (Chiba, Japan) and Taro Hanazato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish applying unit, a conveying unit, an irradiation unit, and a controller. The controller controls conveyance of a recording material so that a conveying speed of the recording material in a case that varni...