ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,664, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Akira Yoshimura (Shizuoka, Japan), Shigeru Hoashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichiro Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masatoshi Takiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing configured to accommodate an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, a discharge unit configured to discharge the recording material to the outside of the housing, and a motor disposed inside of the housing and configured to drive the image forming unit. The housing includes a stacking unit on ...