ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,443, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus for printing image using brilliant toner on recording medium" was invented by Manami Hiraide (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image with a brilliant toner on a recording medium; a medium color determiner that determines whether the recording medium is white or colored; and an image forming controller that controls the image forming unit. When the medium color determiner determines that the recording medium is colored, the image forming controller increas...