US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,525, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshihiko Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ai Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a charging member, a developing member, a transfer member, a brush, a drive unit, a control unit, and a memory. The charging member charges a surface of the photosensitive drum at a charging portion. The transfer member comes into contact with the photosensitive drum to form a transfer portion. The drive unit rotatably...