US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus including sheet discharge unit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,718, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including sheet discharge unit" was invented by Masaaki Takeuchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body accommodating an image forming unit, an image reading unit disposed above the apparatus body and including an opening/closing member, and a sheet discharge unit disposed above the apparatus body and including a discharge tray configured to support a discharged sheet. The discharge tray is disposed above the opening/closing member, movable to a first position and to a second position above the fir...