ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,228, issued on June 10, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Drying device and image forming system" was invented by Tomoya Hotani (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying device (7) is a drying device which dries a sheet while conveying the sheet. The drying device (7) includes a conveying part (15) which conveys the sheet in a predetermined conveyance direction; a heating part (13) which is arranged above the conveying part (15) and dries the sheet conveyed by the conveying part (15); and a supporting part (17) which supports the conveying part (15) in a heating position where the sheet is h...