US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on May 27 for "Developing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,988, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Developing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Arichika Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yutaka Kiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device includes: an image carrier unit including an image carrier; a developing unit including a developer holder that supplies developer to the image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a support unit that supports the developing unit such that the developing unit is movable back and forth toward and away from the image carrier unit; a first positioning un...