US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,407, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kuniaki Tamagaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuhei Kawasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Takayuki Kanazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Hara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsubasa Yoshida (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member that transports developer to an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing member; a supply roller, including a foam elastic member, that supplies the developer to the developer bearing member; a power source device that applies a developing voltage to the develope...