ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,755, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Yamanaka (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater has a main heater block arranged in a reference area corresponding to a sheet having a reference size and a sub-heater block arranged in an outer-side area. An outer-side sheet sensor detects the sheet at a location within the outer-side area between a transfer device and a fixing device. The control device, depending on target size information representing a size of a target sheet, controls a power supply state between a first power su...