ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,256, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takuma Ishihara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Matsubara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hina Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing member that presses the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium, a restorer that is pressed against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing o...