US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 22 for "Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image-forming apparatus including electrophotographic photoreceptor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,813, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image-forming apparatus including electrophotographic photoreceptor" was invented by Kohichi Toriyama (Sakai, Japan) and Kenta Yoshida (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an electrophotographic photoreceptor including, on a conductive base, at least a photoreceptive layer or alternatively at least the photoreceptive layer and a protective layer laminated on the photoreceptive layer, in which both or either one of the photoreceptive layer and the protective layer contains...