ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,627, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for controlling mixer and method for producing carrier" was invented by Yosuke Akabane (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Tanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Yamahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, for controlling a mixer that mixes materials through rotation of an impeller while a solvent contained in the materials is evaporated under negative pressure, performs a process in which the mixer is operated while the pressure inside the mixer is increased or decreased according to a predetermined profile. When a power value of t...