ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,296, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Continuous sheet image forming system with improved defect correction and reprinting" was invented by Shingo Sasami (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming system that includes: a sheet conveyance section that conveys a continuous sheet along a sheet conveyance path; an image forming section that forms an image on the continuous sheet; and an image reading section that is disposed downstream of the image forming section in the sheet conveyance path, and reads the image formed on the continuous sheet to generate image data; and a ha...