ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,708, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kiyoharu Kakomura (Chiba, Japan) and Takuya Machida (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including a fixing unit that fixes a toner image on a recording material includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire grammage information about the recording material, and a temperature control unit configured to control a temperature of a heating rotary member of the fixing unit based on the grammage information. The temperature control unit changes the temperature control of the heating ...