US Patent Issued to Canon on June 10 for "Image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,684, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system" was invented by Takahiro Suzuki (Saitama, Japan), Ryota Fujioka (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan) and Kenichiro Kitajima (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a first control unit which controls the image forming unit, a varnish application apparatus provided downstream in a sheet conveyance direction with respect to the image forming apparatus and including a varnish application unit which applies varnish to a sheet and a second contro...