ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,930, issued on April 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus the controls operation depending on whether show-through of sheet is detected" was invented by Tatsuya Majima (Osaka, Japan), Kenji Miyamoto (Osaka, Japan), Takahiro Honda (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Hideo Taketani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, in a case of duplex printing, a sheet is transported toward an image forming device along a sheet transport route, the image forming device forms an image on a first face, which is one of faces of the sheet, a r...