ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,975, issued on April 22, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Masatomo Yamaguchi (Inazawa, Japan), Yuya Tatematsu (Nagoya, Japan) and Hironori Takasaki (Ogaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a feeding tray capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the housing, a feed roller, and one or more detection units. The feeding tray includes a first accommodation part in which a roll body having a configuration where a sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape is accommodated and a second accommodation part in which a plur...