ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,558, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Mizuguchi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a sheet discharging portion, and a sheet stacking portion. The stacking portion includes a first member including an inclined surface inclined upward toward a downstream side of a sheet discharging direction, and a second member including a stacking surface which projects upward from the inclined surface and on which the discharged sheet is stacked. The second member is rotatable relative to the first member ab...