US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 26 for "Image forming apparatus including device main body and consumable attachable thereto and including consumable memory for storing recycling history information" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,457, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus including device main body and consumable attachable thereto and including consumable memory for storing recycling history information" was invented by Takashi Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan) and Tadao Kyotani (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a device main body, a consumable, and a controller. The consumable is attachable to the device main body. The consumable includes a consumable memory for storing therein recycling history information indicating a recycling history of the consumable. The con...