ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,984, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Disruptions of toner transfers from developers to photoreceptors" was invented by Jeffrey Harold Luke (Boise, Idaho), Justin D. Pettingill (Boise, Idaho) and Gabriel Scott McDaniel (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a developer to receive a toner, and an actuator moveable between different positions. An electrical switch is responsive to an input stimulus from the actuator to control a voltage that enables or disrupts a transfer of the toner from the developer to a photoreceptor, where the electrical switch when...