US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 16 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,716, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryoma Tada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuta Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kizuku Ohno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuusuke Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first heater, a second heater, and processing circuitry. The first heater is used in an image forming process. The second heater is used in a processing process after the image forming process. The processing circuitry is to measure a temperature of the first heater, measure a temperature of the second heater, and control start of th...