ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,688, issued on May 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transfer belt having a substrate layer that includes polyester, silicone particles, and conductive particles, transfer device having the transfer belt, and image forming apparatus having the transfer device" was invented by Kenji Omori (Kanagawa, Japan), Shogo Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masato Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer belt includes a substrate layer that includes polyester, silicone particles, and conductive particles."

The patent was filed on July 20, 2023, under Application No. ...