ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,584, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment" was invented by Shinichiro Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus having a detachable replenishment container includes an image bearing member, a developer container, a developing bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a toner image by using toner accommodated in the developer container, and a replenishment port through which the developer container can be replenished with toner from t...