US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Nov. 11 for "Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,255, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuko Iwashita (Osaka, Japan), Jun Azuma (Osaka, Japan), Keiji Maruo (Osaka, Japan), Kazuaki Ezure (Osaka, Japan), Yuichi Yoshida (Osaka, Japan), Kazutaka Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhiro Oishi (Osaka, Japan) and Kazunari Hamasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate, an intermediate layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer prov...