US Patent Issued to Sharp on Nov. 11 for "Image forming device and toner replenishment control method in image forming device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,250, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, 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 of the present disclosure, a required replenishment amount is calculated based on a printing rate derived from image data, and toner is replenished to a development device by a toner replenishment device for a required replenishment time in accordance with the required replenishment amount. Then, a time difference obtained by subtracting a printing time per sheet from the...