US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,619, issued on July 28, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomokazu Akuta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an attachment section to which a first fixing unit that performs a fixing operation of fixing an image on a recording material by using power from an alternating current power supply and a second fixing unit that performs the fixing operation by using power from a direct current power supply are attached, an alternating current power supply section that receives the power supplied from the alternating current pow...