US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Image forming apparatus operable in plural modes to set transfer voltage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,488, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus operable in plural modes to set transfer voltage" was invented by Yusuke Minato (Chiba, Japan) and Takenori Sueoka (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image forming portion, a transfer member, a power source, an acquiring portion, and a controller capable of executing an operation in an adjustment mode. A plurality of test toner images transferred onto a recording material in the occurrence in the adjusting mode include a first test toner image transferred under application of a...