US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 1 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,048, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Katsuyuki Kitajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Ota (Kanagawa, Japan), Masataka Kuribayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhisa Morooka (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuhiro Igarashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Teppei Yawada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shota Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photoreceptor; a charging device that charges a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an electrostatic charge image-forming device tha...