ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,238, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Saito (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a toner image forming portion, a transfer member, a voltage applying portion, an acquiring portion, and a controller. In continuous printing in which toner images are continuously transferred onto a first recording material and a second recording material, in a case that the first recording material is an envelope on the basis of recording material information, the controller carries out control so that a transfer ...