ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,153, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner container" was invented by Makoto Hayashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuuki Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Go Torii (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takayuki Yada (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container includes a first chamber for accommodating toner and provided with an outlet port through which the toner is discharged outside of the toner container, a second chamber provided with an inlet port and for accommodating toner to be received from an outside of the toner container through the inlet port, a stirring member for stirring the toner accommodated in the fi...