US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus configured to form latent image for adhesion processing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,434, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus configured to form latent image for adhesion processing" was invented by Mitsuhiro Obara (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a scanning unit configured to form latent images in a first region and in a second region of the photoreceptor; and a control unit configured to control a light emission luminance of the scanning unit. The control unit is further configured to set the light emission luminance of the scanning unit to a first light emission luminance when scanning of the first region is started, a...