US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Jan. 20 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,661, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a medium accommodating part, an image forming engine, a discharge part, a medium conveyer configured to convey a medium from the medium accommodating part to the image forming engine and to the discharge part, a medium holder configured to hold the medium discharged to the discharge part, a...