US Patent Issued to Canon on June 3 for "Image forming system with pressure-bonding of folded recording material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,121, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system with pressure-bonding of folded recording material" was invented by Shuichi Tamura (Ibaraki, Japan) and Naoyuki Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming unit for forming a first toner image and a second toner image on a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium by using toner containing wax; a pressure-bonding unit for pressure-bonding the recording medium folded in two by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium, an inner surface of the recording medium folded in two ...