ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,484, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes: a photosensitive drum that bears an electrostatic latent image; a charging roller that charges the photosensitive drum; and a developing roller that develops by toner the electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive drum, a control unit that controls to start rotation of the photosensitive drum and the developing roller in a state of being in contact with each other, and an estimating unit configured to esti...