ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,237, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Katagiri (Hino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus by which a toner image is formable on a continuous sheet includes a developing device that develops a latent image formed on an image bearing member to form a toner image, and a toner container that contains a toner to be supplied to the developing device, and is attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus, wherein a plurality of the toner containers containing toners of a same color are arranged."
The patent was filed ...