ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,366, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Fusing based on belt temperature" was invented by Jeongchul Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Choongkyu Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Younghoon Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuser includes a heating member, a fusing belt including an inner circumferential surface, the fusing belt to be heated by the heating member by having the inner circumferential surface of the fusing belt in contact with the heating member, a first temperature sensor to sense a first temperature of an outer circumferential surface o...