ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,521, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Aoji Isono (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a heating portion configured to heat the fixing member by being supplied with electric power, a power source configured to supply electric power to the heating portion, a temperature detector, a controller configured to control power supply from the power source to the heating portion based on the output voltage from the temperature detector, a reference voltage generator configured to generate a reference voltage, and a br...