ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,249, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic charge image developing toner, production method of same, and electrophotographic image forming method" was invented by Tatsuya Fujisaki (Hino, Japan), Junya Onishi (Hachioji, Japan), Kaori Fujino (Hino, Japan) and Kazumi Oura (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including toner base particles containing a binder resin an a mold release agent, wherein a molecular weight corresponding to a main peak top of a molecular weight distribution curve of constituent components of the electro...