ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,130, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Shimizu (Suntou-gun, Japan), Osamu Anan (Susono, Japan) and Kazuki Matsumoto (Fuji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge that can be inserted in an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus by moving along an axial direction of an image bearing member includes the image bearing member, a frame configured to support the image bearing member, a storage member configured to store therein information on the cartridge, and include an electrical contact, and a first pressed section...