US Patent Issued to RICOH on June 17 for "Image forming apparatus including a housing with a cover to store a toner bottle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,580, issued on June 17, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including a housing with a cover to store a toner bottle" was invented by Tatsuya Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Nieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoki Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing. The housing stores a toner bottle and has an insertion opening and a cover. The toner bottle is insertable to the insertion opening. The cover has an opening and openably closable the insertion opening. The toner bottle is visible from the opening of the cover at a closed position."

The patent...