US Patent Issued to Canon on April 7 for "Toner processing apparatus and method for producing toner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,312, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner processing apparatus and method for producing toner" was invented by Shotaro Nomura (Shizuoka, Japan), Takeshi Tsujino (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiro Hashimoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Atsuhiko Ohmori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner processing apparatus processing an object comprising toner particles, comprising a processing chamber having a drive shaft rotatably provided at the bottom of chamber; a rotating member and a flow means pivotally supported by the drive shaft, wherein the rotating member comprises a main portion, and a processing portion p...