ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,706, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus with detectable cartridge" was invented by Daisuke Abe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Koji Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediat...