ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,857, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, method for controlling conveyance of recording medium, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Akinori Kimata (Toyokowa, Japan), Takahiro Tsujimoto (Toyokawa, Japan), Noriyuki Jinbo (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kenichi Hayashi (Anjo, Japan) and Shiro Umeda (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that detects information relating to the first recording medium and information relating to the second recording medium; and a hardware processor that causes the sensor to detect information r...