ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,458, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Uchida (Chiba, Japan) and Takahiro Ito (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a casing, a door, a switching portion, an operating portion, and an operation regulating portion. The operating portion is moved to a first operating position in which the switching portion is set to the first state and, a second operating position in which the switching portion is set to the second state. The operation regulating portion is switched between a regulating state in which th...