US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Feb. 3 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,160, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Akazawa (Hachioji, Japan), Takefumi Nishio (Hachioji, Japan), Toshihiro Wazumi (Hachioji, Japan), Ryoei Ikari (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Kei Yuasa (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that develops a latent image by causing toner to adhere to the latent image via a toner carrier disposed opposite a latent image carrier on which the latent image is formed. The developing device includes a drive transmitter that transmits a driving force to a toner conveyo...