US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Aug. 26 for "Photoresponsive compound, adhesive, switching material, and toner containing the photoresponsive compound, and image forming method using the toner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,095, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Photoresponsive compound, adhesive, switching material, and toner containing the photoresponsive compound, and image forming method using the toner" was invented by Toyoko Shibata (Tokyo), Haruo Horiguchi (Koganei, Japan), Yukiko Nakai (Toyohashi, Japan), Kouji Sugama (Musashino, Japan) and Kazuaki Nakamura (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized and is represented by the following general formula (1):In the general formula (1), Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent an aromatic hy...