ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,158, issued on July 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Seiji Inada (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kunihiro Niwa (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, and an opening/closing cover configured to expose an opening portion of the apparatus body by being opened. The apparatus body includes a main body frame, a plurality of conveyance units being detachably attached to the main body frame through the opening portion, a control board configured to control the plurality of conveyance units, and a relay board configured to be electrically conne...