US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 30 for "Electronic device and method for producing the same, image forming method, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,786, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device and method for producing the same, image forming method, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hidetoshi Kami (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoharu Asano (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayuki Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan) and Ryota Inoue (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a support; a charge-transporting layer including a charge-transporting material, or a sensitizing-dye electrode layer including a sensitizing dye, where the charge-transporting layer or the sensitizing-dye electrode layer is disposed on or above the support;...