US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,943, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a surface layer which exhibits excellent...