ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,816, issued on March 18, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hirotaka Kanou (Toyokawa, Japan) and Hiroyuki Maeda (Toyokawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing roller that fixes an unfixed image to a medium; a drive motor of the fixing roller, and a hardware processor that acquires information regarding a state of the image forming apparatus or information regarding a state of the medium, and controls a number of rotations of the drive motor between a preset upper limit value and a preset lower limit value, wherein the hardware processo...