US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on April 29 for "Image forming method and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,592, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming method and image forming system" was invented by Kazumi Oura (Sagamihara, Japan), Hiroshi Nagasawa (Hino, Japan), Masaharu Matsubara (Hachioji, Japan), Koji Shibata (Hachioji, Japan), Akihiko Itami (Hino, Japan), Makoto Nomiya (Tokyo) and Natsuki Ito (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming method including: developing, with an electrostatic charge image developing toner, a latent image formed on a photoreceptor in which a photosensitive layer is formed on a support containing aluminum as a main component; transfer...