ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,294, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Takahashi (Chiba, Japan), Sho Matsui (Chiba, Japan) and Ayano Saito (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a transfer portion, a fixing unit, a conveyance belt configured to convey a sheet from the transfer portion toward the fixing unit, a driving portion configured to drive the conveyance belt, and a controller configured to control the driving portion. The controller is configured to, in a case of switching the image forming apparatus to a standby state in which the image forming ...