ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,707, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Cooling device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideyuki Umeno (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device which cools an inside of an image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper, the cooling device includes an overall cooler that cools an entire inside of the image forming apparatus using overall cooling air flowing inside the image forming apparatus, and a partial cooler that blows cooling air to a part to be cooled to cool the part to be cooled, in which volume of the cooling air on a leeward side of the overall cooling...