ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,672, issued on March 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Toner concentration sensing apparatus capable of accurately sensing toner concentration of toner image, image forming apparatus, and toner concentration sensing method" was invented by Ayato Morikami (Osaka, Japan), Yasuaki Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan), Masaru Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Kenichi Hayashi (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Ogasawara (Osaka, Japan) and Yukiko Yoshimura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner concentration sensing apparatus includes a first acquisition processing portion, a second acquisition processing portion, and a t...