US Patent Issued to CANON on March 25 for "Developer replenishing container and method of reusing developer replenishment container" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,667, issued on March 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Developer replenishing container and method of reusing developer replenishment container" was invented by Yasuhiro Shimoi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developer replenishing container configured to be detachably attachable to a developer replenishing device and to replenish developer via the developer replenishing device is disclosed. The developer replenishing container includes: a developer replenishing portion with a replenishing opening; and a shutter with at least one shutter opening that can communicate with the replenishing opening, the shutter ...