US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 7 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., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,479, issued on Oct. 7, 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), Hiroyuki Kishida (Shizuoka, Japan), Tohru Suganuma (Shizuoka, Japan), Minoru Masuda (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...