US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,452, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuichiro Okawa (Tokyo), Noritomo Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Hosohara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeo Kawanami (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Goshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Sohta Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus that includes an actuator to drive a stirring member, an indicating unit to execute a remaining toner amount indication based on an output value f...