ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,899, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system" was invented by Naoyuki Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish, a receiving unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit executes image forming processing to form an image on a plurality of types of recording media including a first type recording medium having a coated layer and a second type recording medium that is without a coated layer. The varnish application unit executes varnish application processing to apply varnish to a recording medium on which the image is...