ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,199, issued on March 31, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Process cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Komatsu (Numazu, Japan), Masaki Ojima (Mishima, Japan), Tomonori Mori (Numazu, Japan), Daisuke Abe (Suntou-gun, Japan) and Tadayuki Tsuda (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process cartridge includes a first unit including an image bearing member configured to carry an electrostatic latent image, and a second unit including a developer bearing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image, the second unit being capable o...