US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on March 3 for "Image forming apparatus having process cartridge with electrical contacts and memory contact facing outward" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,401, issued on March 3, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus having process cartridge with electrical contacts and memory contact facing outward" was invented by Nao Itabashi (Nagoya, Japan), Misato Osuka (Nagoya, Japan), Keita Shimizu (Nagoya, Japan), Go Iwasa (Nagoya, Japan), Kazutoshi Nakamura (Kuwana, Japan), Ryosuke Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Tsubasa Kiriyama (Toyoake, Japan), Naoya Kamimura (Ichinomiya, Japan), Yuwen Wang (Nagoya, Japan), Masaaki Furukawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuma Hinoue (Nagoya, Japan) and Kenta Tosuji (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus ...