US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 15 for "Developing cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,493, issued on July 15, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge" was invented by Keita Shimizu (Nagoya, Japan) and Haruka Kizu (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge includes a housing, a storage medium having an electrical contact surface, a holder holding the electrical contact surface and movable with respect to the housing between a first position and a second position, and a roller including a first roller protrusion. The first roller protrusion is movable between a third position and a fourth position in accordance with rotation of the roller. The holder is movable...