ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,681, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Developer supply container and developer supplying system" was invented by Yohei Gamo (Abiko, Japan), Tsukasa Mine (Tsukuba, Japan), Akihito Kamura (Nagareyama, Japan), Koji Katayama (Misato, Japan), Masato Yamaoka (Kashiwa, Japan), Yusuke Oizumi (Toride, Japan), Manabu Jimba (Tsukuba, Japan), Ayatomo Okino (Moriya, Japan), Nobuyuki Yomoda (Kashiwa, Japan) and Keisuke Isobe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "With a mounting operation of a supply container, a supported portion 11b of a developer receiving portion 11 is supported by a receipt supporting portion 30c of a lif...