ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,490, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Developer supply container and developer supplying system" was invented by Hiromasa Katayama (Tokyo), Manabu Jimba (Tsukuba, Japan), Akihito Kamura (Nagareyama, Japan) and Katsuya Murakami (Toride, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engaging portion 30 is provided which is engageable with a portion-to-be-engaged 11b a displaceable integrally with a developer receiving portion 11 with a mounting operation of a developer supply container 1 to displace 11 in an upward direction U to bring a receiving opening into communication with a discharge opening. An engaging portion...