US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 27 for "Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,677, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium" was invented by Satoshi Iwanami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a head, processing circuitry, and a reader. The head includes a first nozzle, a second nozzle, and a third nozzle at a position different from the first nozzle in a conveyance direction of a recording medium. The circuitry controls relative movement of the medium and the head along a main scanning direction and relative movement of a conveyance amount bet...