ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,996, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus capable of easily taking over data" was invented by Yasushi Takatsuki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a sheet supply portion, and a control portion. The image forming portion forms an image on a sheet. The sheet supply portion supplies the sheet to the image forming portion. The control portion controls the image forming portion and the sheet supply portion. The control portion includes a first control substrate on which a first control element and ...