ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,404, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp (Tokyo).

"Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" was invented by Yasuko Torii (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Tsurumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Soichiro Arai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin and resin particles and silica particles (A) that are externally added to the toner particles and contain a nitrogen element-containing comp...