US Patent Issued to Ricoh on May 20 for "Carrier for forming electrophotographic image, developer for forming electrophotographic image, electrophotographic image forming method, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and process cartridge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,582, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Carrier for forming electrophotographic image, developer for forming electrophotographic image, electrophotographic image forming method, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and process cartridge" was invented by Masashi Nagayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Kousuke Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Masahiro Seki (Nara, Japan), Hiroyuki Kishida (Shizuoka, Japan) and Namie Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier can be used for forming an electrophotographic image. The carrier contains a core particle and a coating layer coating the core particle. The coat...