ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,486, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Kawanago (Fuchu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, includes: a developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier, a transfer device that transfers the toner image formed by the developing device to a recording medium at a transfer position, and a charge eliminator that is arranged upstream of the transfer position in a conveyance direction of the recording medium and eliminates charges of the recording medium in a non-contact manner, whe...