US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,785, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Shuntaro Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Taichi Sato (Shizuoka, Japan), Kohei Makisumi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masatada Hirota (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kunihiko Sekido (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes an electroconductive support, a photosensitive layer, and a protection layer The protection layer comprises an electroconductive particle with has a surface containing a titanium oxide and a niobium atom. An...