US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Aug. 19 for "Film, member, transfer device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,146, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Film, member, transfer device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Iori Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film contains a resin and a siloxane compound having a structure A represented by Formula: [RSiO1.5]n (provided that in the formula, R represents an organic group and n represents an integer of 2 or more), where at least one R among plural R's in the structure A is a gr...