ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,676, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazushi Suzuki (Suntou-gun, Japan), Takeshi Sugita (Yokohama, Japan), Tamotsu Kaneko (Mishima, Japan), Hisahiro Saito (Suntou-gun, Japan) and Yoichiro Maebashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is capable of being attached with a toner supply container. The toner supply container stores a toner that is to be supplied to a developing portion. An attachment location of the toner supply container is below a light scanning portion in a vertical direction."
The patent was filed on March 16, 2023, under Appl...