US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Toner" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,356, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner" was invented by Satoshi Arimura (Shizuoka, Japan), Kosuke Fukudome (Tokyo), Kenta Kamikura (Kanagawa, Japan), Shohei Tsuda (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuta Komiya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner comprising a toner particle, the toner particle comprising a binder resin and a boric acid, wherein, where the toner particle is subjected to ATR-IR analysis by using germanium as an ATR crystal in an ATR method, a peak corresponding to the boric acid is detected, the toner comprises a fatty acid metal salt on a surface of the t...