ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,157, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Kobayashi (Chiba, Japan) and Fumiki Hanafuji (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, an image forming portion, a transfer portion, a cleaning blade, and a controller configured to carry out control so as to execute a predetermined cleaning operation At least in a predetermined range of a leading end portion of the predetermined toner image with respect to a first direction which is a surface movement direction of the image bearing member, when the predete...