US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Aug. 5 for "Carrier for forming electrophotographic image, developer, image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,678, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Carrier for forming electrophotographic image, developer, image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge" was invented by Namie Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Kousuke Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Tohru Suganuma (Shizuoka, Japan), Masashi Nagayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Minoru Masuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroyuki Kishida (Shizuoka, Japan), Kento Takeuchi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kaede Masuko (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier for forming an electrophotographic image is provided. The carrier comprises a core particle and a coating layer coating t...