US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Image forming apparatus having detection of stored toner amount" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,652, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having detection of stored toner amount" was invented by Tetsushi Uneme (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ogawa (Tokyo), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an image bearing member, and a process unit attached to the apparatus body. The process unit includes a frame including a storage portion configured to store developer, a developer bearing member configured to supply developer to the image bearing me...