US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on April 29 for "Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,607, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" was invented by Shimpei Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Sakae Takeuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuka Zenitani (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshifumi Eri (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mai Mochida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles and silica particles that are added to an exterior of the toner partic...