US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Image forming apparatus controlling image forming and sheet interval operations" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,700, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus controlling image forming and sheet interval operations" was invented by Ai Suzuki (Tokyo), Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Funatani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing device, a transfer member, a brush, a driving source and a control portion. The control portion controls the driving source to execute an image forming process, in which image formation on the recording material is execute...