ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,224, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshihiko Tanaka (Mishima, Japan), Mitsuhiro Ohta (Yokohama, Japan), Takatoshi Tanaka (Atami, Japan), Fumihiko Yamaya (Mishima, Japan), Naoki Matsushita (Suntou-gun, Japan) and Hiroki Katayama (Suntou-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member and a scanning unit including a light source, a rotatable polygonal mirror, and a sensor. The image forming apparatus includes setting of an operation in a first mode and setting of an operation in a second mode. The image forming appara...