ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,126, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and developing cartridge" was invented by Yu Fukasawa (Tokyo), Yukio Kubo (Tokyo), Daisuke Abe (Suntou-gun, Japan), Mitsuhiro Sato (Akishima, Japan), Masahiro Suetsugu (Kawasaki, Japan) and Kengo Sakai (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a developing cartridge having a housing, a memory medium, a memory medium unit, a developer carrier, and a protrusion portion in the longitudinal direction of the developer carrier; and a tray having a frame, an image bearing member, a guide member provide...