ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,140, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Tomoyuki Hayakawa (Akishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image former that includes an intermediate transferer, and a secondary transferer to which a transfer bias for secondarily transferring the toner image on the intermediate transferer to a continuous recording medium is applied; a conveyor that is arranged on a downstream side of the image former and conveys the continuous recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls a speed of...