US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,408, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hitoshi Iwai (Chiba, Japan), Ryo Abe (Chiba, Japan), Yuta Okada (Ibaraki, Japan), Shinichiro Hosoi (Tokyo), Nobuhisa Kojima (Chiba, Japan) and Ryota Fukumoto (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a photosensitive member unit having a photosensitive member; an exposure head configured to expose the photosensitive member, the exposure head being of an elongated shape in first directions; a developing unit having a developer bearing member; a support member configured to engage...