US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Aug. 4 for "Image forming apparatus having tray for receiving recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,345, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus having tray for receiving recording medium" was invented by Yasushi Okabe (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, a tray having first and second receiving portions is configured to move between a first position, at which at least part of the tray is positioned inside an apparatus body, and a second position, at which the tray is outside the apparatus body. The tray in the first position allows a first recording medium to be conveyed from the first receiving portion. When the tray is in the first posi...