ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,005, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner" was invented by Masashi Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Akane Masumoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Takayuki Toyoda (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenji Ookubo (Shizuoka, Japan), Taku Shimoda (Tokyo) and Yu Yoshida (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner comprising a toner particle, wherein the toner particle comprises a binder resin, a resin A, and a resin B, the resin A comprises a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group in a molecule, a substituent of the substituted silyl group is at least one selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 or more carbon ato...