US Patent Issued to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS on Sept. 16 for "Consumables chip, consumable, image-forming apparatus, communication method, and detection method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,891, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Zhuhai, China).

"Consumables chip, consumable, image-forming apparatus, communication method, and detection method" was invented by Hao Zhang (Zhuhai, China) and Haixiong Li (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a consumable chip, a consumable, an image-forming apparatus, a communication method, and a detection method. The consumable chip includes the first connection terminal, configured to be connected to the first connection pin when the consumable is installed on the image-forming apparatus; the second connection ...