ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,595, issued on June 17, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and image quality adjustment method capable of suppressing variation in image quality of output image immediately after start of image forming process" was invented by Yasuaki Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan), Masaru Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Kenichi Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Ayato Morikami (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan) and Yukiko Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an adjustment processing portion, an acquisition processing portion, and a determination process...