ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,187, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shigeo Hongu (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit configured to form a nip portion and fix a toner image to a recording material, and a speed control unit configured to control a conveyance speed of a recording material in the nip portion, wherein, in a case where glue binding is not performed, a recording material having a first basis weight is conveyed at a second speed greater than a first speed, and a recording material having a second basis weight greater, in basis weig...