US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 30 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,772, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takuro Morita (Osaka, Japan), Takehiro Sato (Osaka, Japan), Keiju Ishida (Osaka, Japan), Sachio Izumichi (Osaka, Japan) and Kaori Katsumoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable member includes a second engagement portion that is engaged with a first engagement portion of a drawing port cover at a reference position when the drawing port cover is closed. One of the movable member and the drawing port cover has a slide surface. The other of the movable member and the drawing port cover incl...