US Patent Issued to Canon on July 29 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,896, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Chikara Imaizumi (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Murasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Kiyoshi Furuta (Shizuoka, Japan), Shinya Noda (Shizuoka, Japan), Kunihiro Niwa (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoji Misao (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomooku Koyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoki Katafuchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomonari Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Sekimizu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end,...