ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,487, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming system" was invented by Naoyuki Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a varnish coating unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit executes an image forming process of forming an image on types of recording media including a first type of recording medium with a coated layer and a second type of recording medium without a coated layer. The varnish coating unit executes a varnish coating process of varnish coating a recording medium on which an image is formed by the i...