US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 3 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,157, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member" was invented by Toshiyasu Shirasuna (Shizuoka, Japan), Jun Ohira (Ibaraki, Japan), Eileen Takeuchi (Tokyo), Ikuyo Kuroiwa (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Shimada (Chiba, Japan), Takanori Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenichi Ikari (Chiba, Japan), Haruhiko Mitsuda (Chiba, Japan) and Ryoichi Tokimitsu (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a surface layer, wherein the ...