US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on Sept. 23 for "Image forming system and image forming method for determining a cause of an image defect" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,772, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system and image forming method for determining a cause of an image defect" was invented by Naoshi Kashiwagura (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet based on printing data, a first processor that inspects the image formed by the image forming unit, and a second processor that determines whether a cause of an image defect is a fixing defect when the image defect is found by the first processor."

The patent was filed on May 12, 2023, under Application No. 18/3...