US Patent Issued to CANON on March 11 for "Image output apparatus using a measured temperature, image output method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,720, issued on March 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image output apparatus using a measured temperature, image output method, and storage medium" was invented by Nobukazu Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains a measured temperature of a fixing unit that fixes an applied agent applied on a print medium to the print medium by heat and identifies a print job whose temperature to be set associated with a type of print media to be used is closest to the measured temperature among a plurality of print jobs that are saved in a first saving unit and are yet to be ident...