ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,334, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Junya Azami (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first sheet feeding portion, a second sheet feeding portion, an image forming portion, a paper dust collecting portion, a merging portion, a rotatable member, a first guiding member, and a second guiding member. The paper dust collecting portion is provided downstream of the first sheet feeding portion and the second sheet feeding portion and upstream of the merging portion with respect to a conveying direction of a recording material."...