US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 14 for "Image forming device and process cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,398, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming device and process cartridge" was invented by Soichiro Arai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuko Torii (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Tsurumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes an image holding member, a charging device configured to charge a surface of the image holding member, an electrostatic charge image forming device configured to form an electrostatic charge image on the surface of the image holding member that has been charged, a developing device configured to contain a developer containing tone...