ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,808, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuuta Sakurai (Chiba, Japan) and Takahiro Ito (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a door, first and second switching portions, an interlocking portion, and an operating portion. The first switching portion is switched to a first state in which the door is rotatable from a closed position to a first opened position and a second state in which the door is rotatable from the first opened position to a second opened position. The second switching portion is switched to a third stat...