US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 26 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,015, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Koichi Tsugimura (Nagoya, Japan), Haruka Azechi (Nagoya, Japan), Masashi Ohhashi (Kasugai, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakano (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoru Arakane (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus having a first container, a second container, an image forming device, a medium conveyer, a command acquiring device, and a controller, is provided. When a length of the medium to be conveyed is equal to or smaller than a first predetermined length, the controller controls the medium conveyer to con...