ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,395, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Kunihiko Sekido (Shizuoka, Japan), Tatsuya Ohsawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Naoyuki Matsumoto (Fukui, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member which can suppress the potential fluctuation due to repeated use even with the electrophotographic apparatus of high printing process speed. The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic photose...