ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,677, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shingo Ito (Tokyo), Toshihiko Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroko Katagiri (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer member to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of base materials contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upst...