US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Electrophotographic belt, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing electrophotographic belt" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,849, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic belt, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing electrophotographic belt" was invented by Naoko Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiro Takenaga (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasutomo Tsuji (Saitama, Japan) and Masatsugu Toyonori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic belt is provided, which includes a base layer and a surface layer in direct contact with the base layer, wherein the surface layer includes heteroaggregates of a first particle and a second particle, the first particle is at least one selected ...