ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,607, issued on July 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Two-component developer" was invented by Tamotsu Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Kohei Terasaki (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Kurano (Osaka, Japan), Masashi Yamashita (Osaka, Japan) and Eriko Takeuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a two-component developer, external additive particles of toner particles include resin particles. The resin particles contain a crosslinked resin including a repeating unit derived from a crosslinking agent. Carrier particles each include a carrier core and a coat layer covering a surface of the carrier core. The co...