US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus including heating rotating member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,713, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including heating rotating member" was invented by Kengo Koyama (Chiba, Japan), Toshinori Kimura (Ibaraki, Japan) and Teruhiko Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus which is capable of shifting to a standby state in which a heating rotating member is maintained at a first temperature during non-image forming, and to a sleep state in which a heater is turned off during non-image forming. The heater turns on before a predetermined time period elapses from when the image forming apparatus shifts to the sleep state such ...