ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,244, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kota Shiodera (Tokyo), Masahiro Samei (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Andoh (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device and circuitry. The fixing device includes a pair of rotators and a heater. The pair of rotators forms a nip through which recording media pass in a conveyance direction. The heater heats at least one of the pair of rotators to fix images printed on the recording media. The circuitry is configured to acquire image data of the images to be printed on the recordin...