US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 14 for "Imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,724, issued on July 14, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Yoshiaki Kudo (Osaka, Japan), Jun Saiki (Hyogo, Japan) and Rintaro Wada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a casing having first and second attachment surfaces; a sheet fixing member having first and second contact surfaces coming into contact with the first and second attachment surfaces, respectively; and a sheet-like member disposed between the casing and the sheet fixing member. The sheet fixing member has a first portion and a second portion that ...