US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Fixing method and printing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,413, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing method and printing apparatus" was invented by Takuto Moriguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Yoshitake (Chiba, Japan) and Shin-Ichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object is to provide a method of appropriately drying a print medium. A fixing method includes: applying ink to the print medium; cooling the print medium to which the ink is applied in the applying; and heating the print medium cooled in the cooling while maintaining the print medium in a flat and smooth state."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/582,856....