ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,603, issued on June 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Arai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a body, an intermediate transfer unit, a cover, and a guide rail. The body has a bottle housing hole in which a toner bottle is removably inserted. The intermediate transfer unit includes an intermediate transfer belt and a plurality of rollers to drive the intermediate transfer belt and is removably disposed between the image forming device and the bottle housing hole. The intermediate transfer unit and the ...