ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,794, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinsuke Serizawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a printed circuit board including a voltage generation unit mounted thereon and configured to generate a voltage to be applied to the image forming unit, a conductive member provided on the printed circuit board, to which the voltage generated by the voltage generation unit is applied, an elastic member including an arm portion configured to be biased toward...