ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,881, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Katagiri (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji An (Saitama, Japan), Hiroko Yokoyama (Tokyo), Wataru Takahashi (Tokyo), Shohei Ishio (Tokyo), Takayuki Tanaka (Tokyo) and Tomonori Matsunaga (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member agai...