ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,215, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuta Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer roller, a first bearing, a second bearing, a first holding member, a second bearing member, a first urging member, a second urging member, and a contact member. With respect to a direction in which the first holding member is urged by the first urging member, the contact member contacts the first bearing on a side upstream of a rotation center of the transfer roller so as not to be disposed on a side down...