ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,522, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Printing apparatus, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Takashi Tsuzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printing apparatus compares, while a given print job is executed, a temperature of a heating unit with fixing temperatures corresponding to a plurality of print jobs to be sorted, and performs, based on a comparison result, the sorting so that a predetermined order is descending order or ascending order of the fixing temperature. The sorting is performed so the predetermined order is ascending ord...