US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 15 for "Spool, long member, conveying device, and cleaning device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,808, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Spool, long member, conveying device, and cleaning device" was invented by Ryoichiro Kanno (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spool that is rotatably journaled and has a long member wound around the spool, includes: a marker with which a side face of the spool is provided, the side face being orthogonal to a rotation axis of the spool, wherein the marker includes an information-detection bit marker indicating information regarding the long member."

The patent was filed on June 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/207,837.

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