US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Toner, toner production method, and two-component developer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,796, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner, toner production method, and two-component developer" was invented by Shin Kitamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Toru Takahashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Daisuke Tsujimoto (Tokyo), Ryuichiro Matsuo (Ibaraki, Japan), Ryuji Murayama (Chiba, Japan), Hitoshi Sano (Chiba, Japan), Nobuyuki Fujita (Tokyo), Shuji Yamada (Chiba, Japan), Yuka Gunji (Ibaraki, Japan), Takakuni Kobori (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yoshihiro Ogawa (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner comprising a toner particle and a silica fine particle A on a surface of the toner particle, wherein: a weight-average partic...