ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,689, issued on June 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Kaku (Shizuoka, Japan), Akihiro Maruyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Shuhei Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Yamaai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kaname Watariguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Michiyo Sekiya (Shizuoka, Japan), Kohei Makisumi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hideharu Shimozawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrophotographic apparatus which uses a light emitting diode array as an exposure unit and exposes a photosensitive member to a quantity of light from the LED array whose average light quantity satisfies 0.8xE min...