US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,459, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Nobuhiro Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan), Shuntaro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Makisumi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroyuki Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising: a support, a photosensitive layer, and a surface layer in this order, wherein an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member exhibits a wrinkled shape by having a concavo-convex shape, the surface l...