US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 5 for "Grease composition for heat fixing devices and heat fixing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,682, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Grease composition for heat fixing devices and heat fixing apparatus" was invented by Munehito Kurata (Shizuoka, Japan), Hisashi Nakahara (Shizuoka, Japan), Hirohiko Aiba (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Sato (Ibaraki, Japan), Hideo Nanataki (Kanagawa, Japan), Masahito Omata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Sakakibara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihito Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Sugawara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grease composition for heat fixing devices contains a base oil and polytetrafluoroethylene. The base oil contains ...