ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,702, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Kono (Kanagawa, Japan) and Manabu Furusato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rear frame disposed on a rear side in a housing, the housing allowing access to a component on a front side in the housing, a driving unit that is attached to a front side of the rear frame to drive a toner cartridge, and a substrate assembly that is disposed on a rear side of the rear frame, and connected to the driving unit with a harness."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16,...