ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,213, issued on March 4, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Cartridge including holder that holds electrical contact surface and has hole overlapped with the same" was invented by Shinya Kusuda (Nagoya, Japan), Nao Itabashi (Nagoya, Japan), Masaaki Furukawa (Nagoya, Japan), Shuhei Hatano (Komaki, Japan) and Yasuo Fukamachi (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes: a housing; a storage medium including an electrical contact surface; and a storage medium holder holding the storage medium and movable relative to the housing. The storage medium holder is positioned at one end portion of the hous...