US Patent Issued to Sharp on Dec. 2 for "Image forming device and toner replenishment control method in image forming device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,541, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming device and toner replenishment control method in image forming device" was invented by Shohei Fukumoto (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an image forming device according to the disclosure, a required toner amount is calculated based on image data. A toner replenishment device replenishes a development device with toner of a first replenishment amount included in the required toner amount. Toner of the remaining second replenishment amount included in the required toner amount is replenished, based on a toner concentration detectio...