US Patent Issued to Canon on June 9 for "Cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,664, issued on June 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Kashiide (Tokyo), Masaaki Sato (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus comprises a photosensitive drum, and developing cartridge a developing roller configured to supply toner to the photosensitive drum and to rotate about a rotational axis. The image forming apparatus also includes a main assembly to which the developing cartridge is mountable in a mounting direction crossing the rotational axis and from which the devel...