ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,143, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Heater and image heating device mounted with heater" was invented by Yasuhiro Shimura (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater of the present invention includes jointed heat generating resistors having a positive temperature characteristic of resistance and provided between a first conductive element and a second conductive element on a substrate in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and a plurality of heating blocks provided in the longitudinal direction, each of which is a set of the first conductive element, the second conductive element, and the ...