ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,815, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Method for cooling down a printer, printer and software product" was invented by Rudolf Bosch (Venlo, Netherlands) and Albert G. M. Van Welie (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for shutting down a printer that includes an endless cleaning member and an endless image transfer member includes a step of cooling down the printer by allowing the cleaning member and the cleaning zone to cool down to a predetermined cooling temperature, the predetermined cooling temperature being a temperature lower than the eleva...