US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on April 15 for "Image formation apparatus and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,931, issued on April 15, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image formation apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Masahiro Nonoyama (Toyokawa, Japan), Masahiro Kamiya (Toyohashi, Japan), Katsuhide Sakai (Toyokawa, Japan), Junichi Masuda (Toyokawa, Japan) and Taku Kimura (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image formation apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium delivered along a predetermined delivery path and outputs the recording medium; a first hardware processor that judges whether or not the recording medium is an envelope; a second hardware processor...