ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,235, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Tec K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Ota (Ota Tokyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus measures a temperature of a pressing member and controls heat generation of a heater such that the measured temperature approaches a control temperature. Further, the image forming apparatus sets, before starting image formation of one job including image formation, one candidate temperature of a plurality of predetermined candidate temperatures different from each other as the control temperature on the basis of ...