US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 14 for "Process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,119, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Kaname Watariguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Chiharu Nakazono (Shizuoka, Japan), Hideharu Shimozawa (Tokyo), Tsutomu Nishida (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Okuda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taiji Katsura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The process cartridge is a process cartridge to be removably mounted onto a main body of an electrophotographic apparatus, the process cartridge including: an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a toner; and a developing member, wherein the electrophotographic photosen...