US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 28 for "Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,312, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment" was invented by Tomio Noguchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Matsuzaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Fujinaka (Tokyo), Takao Sameshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Akitoshi Toyota (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichi Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a developer container having an accommodating portion to accommodate developer, and a replenishment port for replenishing the accommodating portion with developer from an attachable replenishment...