US Patent Issued to CANON on June 9 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,663, issued on June 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasuhisa Matsumoto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body provided with an opening portion, an opening/closing member, a fixing unit, a unit configured to be attached to and detached from the apparatus body through the opening portion, and a control unit configured to execute a predetermined initializing operation based on a movement of the opening/closing member from the open position to the closed position, in a case where the control unit detects a movement of the fixing...