ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,879, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BEIJING XINTRON OFFICE EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Detent device for toner container, rotating disc, and conveying device" was invented by Xuewen Ma (Beijing) and Haifeng Geng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detent device for a toner container includes a detent main body (1-3), and a detent mouth (1-1) which is located at one side of the detent main body (1-3) and has a U-shaped, C-shaped, V-shaped, L-shaped, groove-shaped, trapezoidal or curved structure. A rotating disc for a toner container includes a rotating disc main body (3-8), a detent device mounted on the rotating disc ...