ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,805, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Keita Hidaka (Tsukuba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a reading unit. The image forming unit is configured to form an image. The reading unit has a first reading mode, in which a document conveyed by a conveyance unit is read, and a second reading mode, in which a document placed on a platen glass is read. A first correction mode, in which correction data is generated using a result of reading the test document in the first reading mode, ...