ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,741, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner" was invented by Megumi Shino (Chiba, Japan), Takeshi Hashimoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Yukihiro Abe (Chiba, Japan), Miki Ueda (Tokyo), Hayato Ida (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazuki Murata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a toner comprising: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an organic silicon polymer particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline resin, and when the toner particle is pelletized and a Young's modulus of the toner measured in a micro compression test at 25deg C. is represented by TE (MPa) ...