US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on April 8 for "Intermediate transfer belt assembly with shutter structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,129, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Intermediate transfer belt assembly with shutter structure" was invented by Seongho Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Wontaek Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate transfer belt assembly includes an intermediate transfer roller located on an inner side of an intermediate transfer belt to support the intermediate transfer belt, an accommodation portion to accommodate foreign matter, the accommodation portion having an inlet open toward the intermediate transfer belt, and a shutter to open or close the i...