US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus having a toner replenishment operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,446, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having a toner replenishment operation" was invented by Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Funatani (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ai Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus to and from which a replenishment container accommodating toner is attachable and detachable includes a replenishment port to allow replenishment of toner from the replenishment container, an opening/closing portion to open the replenishment port in an open position and close...