ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,471, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takuma Tadomi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing belt, a pressure rotary body, a nip forming member, a detection unit, and a control unit configured to control a sheet interval to be a first sheet interval and a second sheet interval, wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where time taken for a center position of the fixing belt to move, in the width direction, from a first position to a second position is equal to or less than a threshold, control the sheet interval...