US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,716, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shingo Ito (Tokyo), Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroko Katagiri (Tokyo) and Shimpei Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a toner storage portion, a developing member configured to develop a latent image on the photosensitive member into a toner image, an attachment portion to which a replenishing container containing toner is attached, the attachment portion being configured to allow toner replenishment from the replenishing container into the ton...