ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,893, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Teruhiko Nagashima (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developing unit, and a housing. The developing unit includes a toner carrier, a development container, a circuit board, and a board retaining portion. The development container rotatably supports both end portions of a rotating shaft of the toner carrier, and contains developer and the toner carrier. The development container includes a protrusive support portion which protrudes from b...