US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 11 for "Developing cartridge including electrical contact surface positioned away from developing roller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,800, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge including electrical contact surface positioned away from developing roller" was invented by Saya Minoshima (Gifu, Japan), Tomitake Aratachi (Toyokawa, Japan) and Keita Shimizu (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller rotatable about a developing axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the casing in a second direction crossing the first direction; a developing electrode electrically connected to the developing roller and positioned at one...