US Patent Issued to JIANGXI YIBO E-TECH on July 1 for "Process cartridge" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,057, issued on July 1, was assigned to JIANGXI YIBO E-TECH CO LTD. (Xinyu, China).

"Process cartridge" was invented by Xiaomin Gong (Xinyu, China), Shiping Ao (Xinyu, China), Rongli Xu (Xinyu, China) and Liangliang Hu (Xinyu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process cartridge having: a photosensitive drum; a drum unit comprising the photosensitive drum; a developing roller configured to deposit toner on the photosensitive drum; a developing unit comprising the developing roller; an elastic component; a retaining component. The elastic component is configured to bias the developing unit, from developing position to separation pos...