ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,500, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Heater including heat generating pattern and electrode having connector therebetween" was invented by Tatsunori Izawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Zhehong Chen (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example heater includes a heat generating pattern provided on a substrate and a first electrode located at a first end of the heat generating pattern. The heater further includes a plurality of second electrodes located at an opposite end of the heat generating pattern. The plurality of second electrodes are respectively spaced apart from the f...