US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Nov. 18 for "Image-forming apparatus including process cartridge and device-side terminal configured to contact process-side terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,668, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image-forming apparatus including process cartridge and device-side terminal configured to contact process-side terminal" was invented by Shinta Sugiura (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Aiba (Toyoake, Japan), Keita Inoue (Konan, Japan), Kentaro Aoyama (Nagoya, Japan) and Toshinori Araki (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drawer movable in a first direction between a first position inside the main casing and a second position outside the main casing; process cartridges attachable to and detachable from...