ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,316, issued on April 7, was assigned to Zhuhai Ninestar Information Technology Co. Ltd (Zhuhai, China).

"Developing cartridge" was invented by Xinyu Wu (Zhuhai, China), Yuan Liu (Zhuhai, China), Qin Luo (Zhuhai, China), Hao Yang (Zhuhai, China), Chen Cheng (Zhuhai, China), Wenjie Zhao (Zhuhai, China), Junyu Tao (Zhuhai, China), Yu Chen (Zhuhai, China), Baosheng Zhong (Zhuhai, China), Mingdong Chen (Zhuhai, China), Yinghao Li (Zhuhai, China), Likun Zeng (Zhuhai, China), Yongdi Chen (Zhuhai, China), Luofa Su (Zhuhai, China) and Haoli Huang (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge includes a casing configured...