US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on April 29 for "Fixing device including holder having heater supporting surface supporting heater, and contacting surface opposite heater supporting surface and in contact with stay" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,595, issued on April 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Fixing device including holder having heater supporting surface supporting heater, and contacting surface opposite heater supporting surface and in contact with stay" was invented by Yasutada Kato (Nagoya, Japan), Makoto Souda (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan), Yuichi Ikeno (Maibara, Japan), Takuya Nishimura (Nukata, Japan), Shinichi Hatakeyama (Nagoya, Japan), Shunsuke Ueki (Nagoya, Japan) and Keiichi Imamiya (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes: an endless belt; a heater; a stay; a holder having a heater supp...