ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,265, issued on April 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Keiya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan) and Yohei Wakasa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the image forming apparatus, a controller applies a collection voltage to a cleaning roller by a voltage application part in image formation process. The controller adjusts the collection voltage applied to the cleaning roller on bases of uncollected toner quantity of a toner image and residual charge of an image carrier, the uncollected toner being part of after-transfer remaining toner which results after form...