ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lexmark International Inc. (Lexington, Ky.).
"Toner container having a magnet for toner level sensing" was invented by Michael Charles Day (Lexington, Ky.), Richard Louis Goin (Lexington, Ky.), Kyle Bradley Martin (Paducah, Ky.), Charles Russell Schaefer (Lexington, Ky.) and Brittany Nicole Sexton (Lexington, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container for use in an image forming device includes a housing having a reservoir for storing toner, a paddle positioned within the reservoir, and a rotatable drive member positioned to push the paddle in a first rotational direction. The paddle ...