ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,750, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner" was invented by Kenji Aoki (Shizuoka, Japan), Takashi Matsui (Shizuoka, Japan), Takayuki Toyoda (Shizuoka, Japan), Tsutomu Shimano (Tokyo), Shohei Shibahara (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuna Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the binder resin comprises a crystalline resin A, the crystalline resin A comprises a monomer unit derived from a monomer (a), the monomer (a) is at least one selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid esters having an alkyl group with 1...