US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,794, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member" was invented by Masashi Nishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiro Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Michiyo Sekiya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Nanami Kato (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photosensitive member that shows stable sensitivity even when repeatedly used. The electrophotographic photosensitive member is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, an undercoat layer, a...