US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,811, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Naoki Matsumaru (Suntou-gun, Japan), Ryuta Murakami (Suntou-gun, Japan), Tadashi Horikawa (Numazu, Japan), Akihiro Fujiwara (Toride, Japan), Akinobu Hirayama (Susono, Japan), Daisuke Makiguchi (Izunokuni, Japan), Hiroaki Nosho (Suntou-gun, Japan), Takuro Kanno (Kawasaki, Japan), Goshi Ozaki (Yokohama, Japan), Tachio Kawai (Tokyo) and Daisuke Abe (Sunto-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, the movable member movable relative to the photosensitive drum to control an incli...