US Patent Issued to Ricoh on April 21 for "Image forming method, toner, developer, printed product, toner storage unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,949, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming method, toner, developer, printed product, toner storage unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazumi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan), Toyoshi Sawada (Shizuoka, Japan), Katsunori Kurose (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akihiro Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming method includes forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearer, developing the electrostatic image with a toner to form a visible image, transferring the visible image onto a recording medium, and fixing the transferred visible image o...