ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,903, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and storage method capable of suppressing occurrence of high-temperature offset" was invented by Yoshiyuki Odaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first storage processing portion, a second storage processing portion, a third storage processing portion, and a fourth storage processing portion. The first storage processing portion stores, in a volatile first storage portion, width size information corresponding to a width of a sheet in contact with a fixing portion. The sec...