ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,154, issued on July 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Okayasu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takao Kume (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including an image bearing member, an intermediate transfer member, and a transfer roller, a conveyance rotary member pair, a fixing unit, a first conveyance path, a second conveyance path, a reverse conveyance unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to perform a conveyance operation of conveying the sheet, the conveyance operation including (i) a first conveyance proc...