US Patent Issued to Canon on May 20 for "Image forming apparatus including exposure head provided with plurality of light emitting chips" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,554, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including exposure head provided with plurality of light emitting chips" was invented by Yasutomo Furuta (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a light emitting chip and at least one processor. The light emitting chip includes a plurality of light emitting elements, a DAC outputting a voltage corresponding to a setting value, and a circuit unit that supplies a current to the plurality of light emitting elements based on the voltage. At least one processor is configured to set the setting value such that one li...