ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,391, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideki Fujita (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing device including a developing container and a developer carrying member, a rotatable intermediary transfer member, and a carrier collecting device including a rotatable sleeve and a magnet. With respect to a rotational direction of the intermediary transfer member, the collecting device is disposed downstream of a first transfer position where a toner image borne on the image bearing member i...