US Patent Issued to CANON on July 22 for "Input device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,809, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Input device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takehito Utsunomiya (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device is mountable on an image forming apparatus including a display portion capable of displaying information and is a numerical key unit 70 at least including a numerical key portion 110 consisting of a hardware key capable of inputting information on a numerical value and a start key 131 consisting of a hardware key capable of inputting information for starting predetermined processing. The start key 131 is disposed on a front side F than...