US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,049, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tsuguhiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji An (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first detector for detecting a temperature of an environment, a fixing unit for fixing a toner image, a second detector for detecting a temperature of the fixing unit and a controller for controlling the fixing unit based on a detecting result of the second detector. The controller performs comparison of a first temperature estimated based on a detecting result of the first detector and a second tempe...