ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,807, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Clutch actuation between positions" 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 an actuator moveable in response to an input stimulus during an image forming operation of an image forming device. The apparatus includes a clutch that is actuatable, during the image forming operation, by the actuator between an engaged position in which the clutch is engaged with a photoreceptor and a diseng...