US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on July 15 for "Image forming apparatus having a plurality of ports to which USB device is attachable" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,711, issued on July 15, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus having a plurality of ports to which USB device is attachable" was invented by Yutaka Urakawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing having a front section and a rear section, a user interface including a display and disposed at the front section and not at the rear section, a first port disposed at the front section within which the display is completely included, and a second port disposed at the rear section. The front and rear sections are defined by imaginarily dividing the hou...