ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,478, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Toner for developing electrostatic charge image, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Asafumi Fujita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukiaki Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaru Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles that include a binder resin, a releasing agent, a brilliant pigment, and an aminocarboxylic acid compound."

The patent was filed on Aug. 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/4...