US Patent Issued to Canon Production Printing Holding on June 16 for "Steam treatment device comprising a conveyor for print media" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,469, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon Production Printing Holding B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Steam treatment device comprising a conveyor for print media" was invented by Stan H.P. Kersten (Venlo, Netherlands), Johannes Regler (Venlo, Netherlands) and Marcel O.E. Demandt (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Deformation is reduced or prevented in a printed print medium during steam treatment by a print medium treatment device for a printer. The print medium treatment device includes a steam treatment unit for treating a first side of a print medium with steam, the steam treatment unit including a steam generator...