ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,561, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus and image heating apparatus" was invented by Takashi Nomura (Susono, Japan), Atsushi Iwasaki (Susono, Japan), Takahiro Uchiyama (Mishima, Japan) and Keisuke Mochizuki (Suntou-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image heating apparatus including: a heater having a plurality of heating elements arranged in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material; and a control portion that controls electric power to be supplied to the plurality of heating elements and is capable of individually controlling the plura...