ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,935, issued on April 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Developing device" was invented by Tomohiro Shiomi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device mountable on an image forming apparatus includes a main body, a fixing portion, a connecting portion and a developing side electric contact. The fixing portion is fixed to the image forming apparatus in a state where the main body and the fixing portion are positioned in the image forming apparatus. A developing side electric contact is provided on the fixing portion and to contact a main assembly side electric contact of the image forming apparatus in a state...