ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,745, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and image forming method" was invented by Hajime Kawakami (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus that discharges droplets, while moving a recording head relative to a recording medium in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, to form an image, includes: a carriage; a first recording head that has a first discharge face having a hole, is disposed on the carriage, and discharges a first droplet containing resin through the hole; a second recording head that has a second discharge face having a h...