US Patent Issued to Lexmark International on Oct. 7 for "Nip separator for separating rollers in an image forming device" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,495, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lexmark International Inc. (Lexington, Ky.).

"Nip separator for separating rollers in an image forming device" was invented by Richard Louis Goin (Lexington, Ky.), Bartley Charles Gould II (Lexington, Ky.), Virgil Johnson Jr. (Versailles, Ky.) and Leah Kaitlin Pettit (Berea, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nip separator for use in an image forming device includes a retainer configured to retain the nip separator on a first rotatable component with the nip separator being manually installable on the first rotatable component and rotatable about a rotational axis of the first rotatable compone...