ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,605, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Yonetoku (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideya Katsuhara (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Hirakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Mizoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukie Hibi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jiro Korenaga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer that is provided on the conductive substrate and contains zinc oxide particles and a binder resin, ...