US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Feb. 3 for "Toner for electrostatic charge image development, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,158, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Toner for electrostatic charge image development, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" was invented by Takashi Inukai (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazutsuna Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshimasa Fujihara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles, the toner particles containing a binder resin containing a vinyl resin and a release agent containing an ester wax...