US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Dec. 16 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,660, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes: a first rotatable member; a second rotatable member disposed in contact with the first rotatable member; a pressing member that is disposed along an inner circumferential surface of the second rotatable member and presses the inner circumferential surface of the second rotatable member such that the second rotatable member is pressed against the first rotatable member; a sliding member interposed between ...