US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on Oct. 7 for "Image forming device and process cartridge therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,494, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming device and process cartridge therefor" was invented by Shougo Sato (Seto, Japan), Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Shunsuke Ishii (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device is provided with a housing formed with an opening, a cover configured to move between a closing position and an opening position, and a plurality of process cartridges including a first process cartridge and a second process cartridge. The first and second process cartridges respectively include first and second photosensitive drums configured to r...