US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 17 for "Cartridge including holder for holding electrical contact surface and method of recycling cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,598, issued on June 17, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Cartridge including holder for holding electrical contact surface and method of recycling cartridge" was invented by Nao Itabashi (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuya Kamikawa (Nagakute, Japan), Shuhei Hatano (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuaki Ooka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes: a housing; a storage medium; and a holder. The storage medium has an electrical contact surface. The holder is movable relative to the housing. The holder includes: a first holder member; and a second holder member. The first holder member has a pawl portion and is c...