ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,135, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Image forming device" was invented by Kenji Kawatsu (Kodaira, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes: a conveyance path that conveys a printing medium; an image former that is arranged in a first place in the middle of the conveyance path, forms an image on one surface of the printing medium, and fixes the formed image by heating; a cooler that is arranged in a second place downstream in a conveyance direction from the first place in the middle of the conveyance path, and cools the printing medium by blowing air for cooling to the pri...