US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Image forming apparatus and image forming system that manufactures booklets by heating multiple sheets" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,412, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and image forming system that manufactures booklets by heating multiple sheets" was invented by Yuya Hirano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet using toner. A fixing unit includes a first heater that fixes the image to the sheet. A booklet manufacturing unit manufactures a booklet by heating a plurality of sheets that have passed through the fixing unit using a second heater and bonding together the plurality of sheets. Power is supplied to the first heater and the second heater through an i...