ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,243, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Mitani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Okayasu (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing member to form toner images, respectively, a transfer member to sequentially transfer the toner images onto a recording material and to overlappingly form toner on the recording material. A fixing member presses and heats the recording material on which the toner images are transferred and fixes the toner images on the recording material. A...