US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 10 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,099, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Ai Suzuki (Tokyo), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Ito (Tokyo), Shimpei Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyuki Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus that includes a replenishing port of toner and an introduction port that is able to communicate with the replenishing port, at least a part of the introduction port is located in a first quadrant or a second quadrant in a two-dimensional coordinate syst...