ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,454, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Makoto Yasuda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including: an image bearer; an image formation unit forming toner image on the image bearer according to image formation conditions; a transfer unit including a transfer member, transferring the toner image on the image bearer to recording medium at a transfer nip between the image bearer and the transfer member; a toner adhesion amount detection unit detecting a toner adhesion amount of a toner pattern transferred from the image bearer to th...