ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,900, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Manato Kobayashi (Chiba, Japan), Yusuke Minato (Chiba, Japan), Izuru Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Tsuruga (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cross-section perpendicular to a rotational axis of a first image bearing member, when a common tangential line between the first image bearing member and a second image bearing member on an intermediary transfer belt side is a rectilinear line L, a rectilinear line passing through a rotation center of the first image bearing member and a rotation center of a first transfer member i...