US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 5 for "Developing cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,688, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge" was invented by Takeyuki Takagi (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Mori (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge may include a housing configured to hold toner. The cartridge may further include a developing roller including a developing roller shaft, a supply roller including a supply roller shaft, a developing electrode and a supply electrode. The developing electrode and supply electrode may be configured to guide an electrical contact of an image forming apparatus in one or more directions. In some examples, the de...