US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 16 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,723, issued on June 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuta Nohara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of container groups, and a container housing. The container groups include a plurality of toner containers containing toner of different colors arranged in a left-and-right directions. The container housing houses the container groups arranged in an upper-and-lower direction. The toner containers of the container groups arranged in the upper-and-lower direction are shifted in the left-and-right directio...