ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,130, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Jumpei Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Tateishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Sasaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Koguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuma Hiasa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tachio Kawai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a toner cartridge which is attachable to and detachable from a rotary through the opening of the body frame and is movable to an attached position where a discharge opening faces an inlet opening such that a toner storage portion and a developing storage portion communicate with each ...