US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Feb. 25 for "Film, member, transfer device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,234,337, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Film, member, transfer device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yosuke Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Shogo Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoya Sugiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Seko (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tanemura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Iori Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A film contains a siloxane compound having an alkyl group and a resin having a density of 1.1 g/cm3 or higher and a glass transition temperature of 150deg C. or higher....