US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 3 for "Image forming apparatus comprising a movable mirror and operation method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,970, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus comprising a movable mirror and operation method thereof" was invented by Nobuya Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinichiro Sonoda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a light emitting device that emits light, a movable mirror that reflects the light emitted from the light emitting device, a first actuator that causes the movable mirror to swing about a first axis, a first reference signal output portion that outputs a first reference signal by estimating a point in time when a deflection angle of the mov...