US Patent Issued to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL on July 28 for "Supply item chip configured for communication with a controller" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,841, issued on July 28, was assigned to LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC. (Lexington, Ky.).

"Supply item chip configured for communication with a controller" was invented by Stephen Porter Bush (Richmond, Ky.), Timothy John Rademacher (Richmond, Ky.), Christopher Alan Adkins (Lexington, Ky.), Jennifer Topmiller Williams (Lexington, Ky.) and Gregory Scott Woods (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply item has toner for use in an imaging device. A chip has memory storing quanta indicating allowed usage of the supply item over its lifetime and a multiplier correlating the quanta to toner mass. The imaging device requires quanta...