ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,986, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Toner transfer modulators" 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 and a moveable support that is moveable in response to actuation by an image forming device. The apparatus further includes a toner transfer modulator on the moveable support, the toner transfer modulator moveable with the moveable support between different positions to differently affect transfer of a toner to a photoreceptor...