US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on March 31 for "Fluorescent green toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,185, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluorescent green toner, electrostatic charge image developer, toner cartridge, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming method" was invented by Takahisa Tatekawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukiaki Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Manabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluorescent green toner contains toner particles containing a binder resin, a release agent, a fluorescent pigment having a hydrophilic group, and a pigment having a halogen atom."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2023, under Application No. 18/154...