US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 28 for "Developing cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,624, issued on July 28, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge" was invented by Nao Itabashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Junichi Yokoi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge may include: a casing to accommodate developer; a storage medium including an electric contact surface; an elastic member extending in a first direction crossing the electric contact surface, and configured to be compressed or stretched in the first direction between a first state and a second state; and a holder including an outer surface positioned toward a side of the holder in the first direction, the e...