US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 11 for "Fine particle containing silicon and toner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,795, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fine particle containing silicon and toner" was invented by Ichiro Kanno (Chiba, Japan), Hayato Ida (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiroki Watanabe (Chiba, Japan) and Mari Kaburagi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a fine particle containing silicon, wherein the fine particle has a number-average particle diameter of a primary particle of 0.05 micro metre or more and 0.20 micro metre or less, wherein the fine particle contains a silicon atom at a ratio of 20% or more with respect to all elements in measurement by X-ray fluorescence."

The patent...