US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Image forming apparatus with interlocking mechanism for a shutter member blocking an optical path of a laser beam" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,558, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with interlocking mechanism for a shutter member blocking an optical path of a laser beam" was invented by Yuya Konno (Shizuoka, Japan), Keita Sato (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Koga (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroki Ichimura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an opening portion, an opening/closing member, a first unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body via the opening portion, a second unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the apparat...