US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 15 for "Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,492, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Yonetoku (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Kawai (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Hirakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Mizoguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideya Katsuhara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, a charge generation layer provided on the undercoat layer, a charge transport layer provided on the charge generation layer,...