ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,680, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Toshinori Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a casing, a document reading unit, a sheet discharge unit, a sheet supporting portion, an operation unit, and a supporting unit. If a region which a plurality of the recording material occupies when a maximum number of a maximum size of a recording material supportable on the sheet supporting portion is supported is defined as an occupied region, the operation unit is disposed such that a part of the operation un...