US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 19 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,130, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Kunihiko Sekido (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masashi Nishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a satisfactory chargeability and being excellent in fogging suppression. The electrophotographic photosensitive member is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a surface protective layer, wherein the surface protective layer is a polymerized film of a composition containing a compound ...