US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Feb. 3 for "Image forming device having drawer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,166, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming device having drawer" was invented by Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Shougo Sato (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device, including: a drawer movable from an inside position where the drawer is located inside a housing to an outside position where the drawer is located outside the housing via an intermediate position; a stopper movable between a first position where the stopper stops the drawer from moving from the intermediate position to the outside position and a second position where the stopper allows the draw...