ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,917, issued on July 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Saya Minoshima (Gifu, Japan) and Tomonori Watanabe (Ichinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shutter moves between a closed position at which the shutter covers a nip of a fuser and an open position at which the nip is exposed. A link contacts a cartridge. The link is coupled to the shutter and moves the shutter between the open position and the closed position. The link is movable between a first position at which the cartridge is not attached to an apparatus main body and a second position at which the car...