US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 20 for "Structure and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,571, issued on May 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Structure and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Ozawa (Osaka, Japan), Koichiro Tsujimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiki Aoyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes a plurality of joined square pipes. Four corner portions of each of the plurality of square pipes include three first corner portions and one second corner portion. The three first corner portions are formed by bending a single metal plate. The one second corner portion includes two edge portions of the metal plate and a welded portion where the tw...