ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,971, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Packing member, toner container, and packing method" was invented by Shuntaroh Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Seiji Terazawa (Shizuoka, Japan), Yosio Sano (Shizuoka, Japan), Teruo Shibata (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tatsuya Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packing member, a toner container, and a packing method. The packing member contains the toner container, and the packing member includes a box containing the toner container with a gap between one side of the box and a container body and between the one side of the box and a large-dimension portion of...