US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Toner and two-component developer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,401, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner and two-component developer" was invented by Kenta Mitsuiki (Ibaraki, Japan), Hisasuke Kajihara (Ibaraki, Japan), Maki Imura (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Yoshida (Ibaraki, Japan), Kohei Yoshiyama (Chiba, Japan), Kentaro Kamae (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuu Nishimura (Chiba, Japan), Kazunari Ooyama (Ibaraki, Japan), Nobuyoshi Sugahara (Tokyo), Yuya Chimoto (Chiba, Japan) and Takaho Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner includes a toner particle containing a binder resin containing a crystalline polyester. In differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), the toner is ...