ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,477, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic image developing toner, electrostatic image developer, and toner cartridge" was invented by Atsushi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshimasa Fujihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Noguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shintaro Anno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Miura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle including an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin, and a release agent. When a cross section of the toner particle is observed, the toner particle satisfies conditions (A1) and (B...