US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 2 for "Cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,556, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Komatsu (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaki Ojima (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Abe (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomonori Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Tadayuki Tsuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Tetsuya Numata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Naoya Asanuma (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a drum unit and a development unit. The drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a frame, a transfer roller, and a cleaning member. The development unit includes a development roller, and a memory. The cleaning member is configured to come ...