US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on April 15 for "Image forming apparatus and image forming method for transferring a powder to an image pattern on a recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,925, issued on April 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and image forming method for transferring a powder to an image pattern on a recording medium" was invented by Yuya Sato (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a powder holding member and a transfer member. The powder holding member holds a powder pattern constituted by powder on a surface. The transfer member constitutes a nip part for nipping a recording medium on which an image pattern is formed with the powder holding member, and pastes powder constituting the powder pattern to the image pattern at...