ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,260, issued on March 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomooku Koyama (Suntou-gun, Japan), Ken Murooka (Mishima, Japan), Wataru Uchida (Yokohama, Japan), Jun Agata (Suntou-gun, Japan), Yohei Suzuki (Suntou-gun, Japan) and Daisuke Takamura (Fujinomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing portion for fixing an image formed on a recording material; and a guide member for guiding the recording material. The guide member is provided at an entrance to the fixing portion and at an end portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to a feeding...