US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Oct. 21 for "Image forming apparatus having drum cartridge, toner cartridge and memory with stored information to determine drum rotation continuation operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,762, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus having drum cartridge, toner cartridge and memory with stored information to determine drum rotation continuation operation" was invented by Fan Xu (Nagoya, Japan) and Koji Ogawa (Owariasahi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory of an image forming apparatus is configured to store drum cartridge information and toner cartridge information. The drum cartridge information includes at least a number of drum printed sheets or a number of drum rotations. The toner cartridge information includes at least a number of toner printed s...