ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,551, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Developing device with structure to regulate discharging amount of developer" was invented by Jonghyun Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Jonghwa Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Hojin Jang (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device includes a conveying member to circulate a developer in a housing, a developer discharge portion extending from one end portion of the housing to form a passage through which surplus developer is discharged from the housing, and a discharge regulation member located on an upstream ...