US Patent Issued to Canon on May 13 for "Image forming apparatus that determines a correction value for correcting an image position when an adjustment image is present and that selects an image bearing contact mode" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,683, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that determines a correction value for correcting an image position when an adjustment image is present and that selects an image bearing contact mode" was invented by Naoto Watanabe (Chiba, Japan) and Takuya Hayakawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming unit to form a first image of a chromatic color, a second image forming unit to form a second image of an achromatic color, a transfer unit, a reading unit, a switching unit to switch a first mode and a second mode, and a controller. ...