US Patent Issued to RICOH on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,621, issued on July 28, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes attachment portions, receiving ports, a storing portion, and an inner cover. The attachment portions are portions to which multiple image forming units, to form respective toner images with different colors from each other, are respectively attachable. The receiving ports are respectively disposed at the attachment portions, and are receivable waste toner respectively discharged from the multiple image forming units attached to ...