US Patent Issued to CANON on April 22 for "Image forming apparatus having residual toner collecting containers" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,284, issued on April 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having residual toner collecting containers" was invented by Takashi Ninomiya (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing a toner image to form a toner image, an intermediary transfer belt onto which the toner image is transferred, a first detachable collecting container to collect residual toner discharged from the image forming portion, and a second detachable collecting container to collect the residual toner discharged from the image forming portion. The first and second col...