US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,323, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Satoshi Totsuka (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an image forming apparatus and methods for controlling the apparatus, which includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to set whether to operate an air blowing fan before a paper type detection sensor detects a type of sheet. In a case where a setting to blow the air is made by the CPU, the air blowing fan blows the air when a sheet feed unit feeds the sheet before the paper type detecti...