ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,492, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Komatsu (Numazu, Japan), Shunsuke Uratani (Mishima, Japan) and Toru Oguma (Mishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a drum flange provided at one end portion of a photosensitive drum, with the drum flange including a hollow interior portion elongated along the axis of the photosensitive drum and an interior surface. A coupling member is operatively connected to the drum flange, with the coupling member being configured to transmit the driving force to the drum flange....