US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,666, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Sohta Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunsuke Hijikata (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoki Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Fukasawa (Tokyo), Seiya Ishikawa (Tokyo), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinjiro Toba (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeo Kawanami (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Egami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a casing, a photosensitive drum rotatably supported by the casing, a charging roller rotatably supported by the casing, and a developing roller rotatably supported ...