ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,761, issued on May 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mounting member, cylinder member, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomoaki Yoshioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Shigezaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomohiro Wada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting member to be mounted on a member that moves in a traveling direction includes: a rectangular sheet member; and an attachment portion having a first surface bonded to one end portion of a reverse surface of a downstream side portion of the sheet member in the traveling direction, the attachment portion being detachably attached ...