ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,215, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinya Kitago (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an intermediary transfer belt, stretching rollers, a pressing member, a supporting member, a moving mechanism, and a controller. In a case that an operation in a toner image transfer mode is executed for recording materials of a predetermined kind in a predetermined environmental condition, when a sum of times each in which the operation was executed from a new state of the pressing member is a first time, a position of the supporting membe...