ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,697, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shougo Fukai (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is provided, including a conveying member configured to convey a long paper along a paper path; an image forming unit which forms an image on the long paper being conveyed by the conveying member along the paper path; an image reading unit which reads a surface of the long paper, the surface having the image formed by the image forming unit; and a color sample member which is arrangeable at a position facing the image reading unit, such that t...