US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 2 for "Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment container control" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,562, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment container control" was invented by Ryo Morihara (Tokyo) and Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a process unit having an image bearing member, a developer container configured to accommodate toner, a developing portion to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member into a toner image by using the toner accommodated in the developer container; and a replenishment port configured to allow replenishment of toner from t...