US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 15 for "Image forming apparatus and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,472, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and image forming method" was invented by Yoshiteru Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenta Shingu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuka Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image holder; a charging unit that charges a surface of the image holder; an electrostatic charge image forming unit that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image holder; a developing unit that accommodates an electrostatic charge image developer containi...