ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,596, issued on April 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Makoto Souda (Nagoya, Japan) and Takuya Nishimura (Nukata-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-supplier, a photoconductor, a fuser and a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where the number of sheets to be printed indicated by a printing job is less than a first predetermined number of sheets, start supplying a sheet by a sheet-supplier at a timing when a second period of time has been passed from a timing when the temperature in the fuser has reached...