ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,681, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Electrophotographic photoconductor, method of manufacturing the same, and electrophotographic apparatus" was invented by Fengqiang Zhu (Nagano, Japan), Shinjiro Suzuki (Nagano, Japan), Masaru Takeuchi (Nagano, Japan) and Kazuki Nebashi (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an electrophotographic photoconductor that is less likely to cause transfer ghosting even when mounted in an electrophotographic apparatus with high transfer voltage set for high-speed or cleanerless processes, as well as a method of manufacturing the electroph...