ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,304, issued on July 15, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Image formation device" was invented by Tadasuke Kaneko (Koganei, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image formation device capable of preventing or suppressing unevenness of a pinning state by setting a fixing condition based on an objective criterion. The image formation device includes: an image forming unit configured to eject ink of one or more colors onto a recording medium to form an image; a fixing unit that includes a pre-fixing unit configured to irradiate the formed image with an energy ray to semi-cure the image, and fixes the image on ...