ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,538, issued on Dec. 2, 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 Tsutomu Furuta (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Ishizuka (Kanagawa, Japan), Erina Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomohito Nakajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin and resin particles and an external additive that contains inorganic particles, in which a loss coeffi...