ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,554, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Guangzhou Zhono Microelectronics Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Developing agent container and imaging device" was invented by Famiao Chen (Guangzhou, China), Shaocong Luo (Guangzhou, China) and Zhenbiao Huang (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photographic developer container can be detachably mounted to a photographic developer receiving portion located within an image-forming apparatus. The photographic developer receiving portion includes a receiving opening, a binding portion, and an abutting portion. The photographic developer container includes a photographic developer disch...