US Patent Issued to Canon on June 17 for "Image forming system and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,594, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kyohei Kikuchi (Ibaraki, Japan), Masami Hano (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Toshiyuki Yamada (Tokyo), Shingo Hirota (Ibaraki, Japan), Taro Hanazato (Tokyo) and Daisuke Katayama (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit including a first photosensitive member, a first developing unit, a second photosensitive member, a second developing unit, a third photosensitive member, a third developing unit, a fourth photosensitive member, and a fo...