US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Jan. 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,302, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hokuto Hatano (Hachioji, Japan), Shunichi Takaya (Hino, Japan) and Kazuhiro Saito (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a solid lubricant; a lubricant application member that scrapes off the solid lubricant and applies the scraped solid lubricant to a surface of the image carrier; a colorimeter that performs colorimetry of a colorimetric surface of the solid lubricant; and a hardware processor that sets a lubricant application condition such that a predetermine...