ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,596, issued on June 17, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Masaya Tanaka (Sunto Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism, a wireless tag communication device, an image forming mechanism, a fixing device including a heating device to heat a medium passing between fixing and pressing members, and a moving mechanism by which a distance between the fixing and pressing members can be changed, and a processor to control the conveyance mechanism to convey a medium, control the communication device to ...