ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,538, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Ito (Chiba, Japan) and Yuya Hamaji (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming main body unit, an openable and closable portion disposed on the image forming main body unit, the openable and closable portion being disposed to be openable and closable between a closed position and an open position, a registration roller pair including a first roller and a second roller, the first roller being disposed on the image forming main body unit, the second roller being disposed on...