ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,936, issued on June 24, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus capable of forming combinable images on separate sheets" was invented by Tomohiro Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus, having a medium storage, a medium conveyer, an image forming device, a user input interface, and a controller, is provided. The controller operates the image forming device and the medium conveyer to perform a first action to form an image composed of image data in an area on a sheet-formed medium from one side of the image in a lengthwise direction, which corresponds to the...