ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,087, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electrophotographic apparatus and process cartridge" was invented by Akihiro Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Masashi Nishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Norifumi Muranaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Nishida (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a charging unit that charges a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member, an exposing unit that irradiates the charged surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member with light to form an electrostatic latent image on the su...