US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 15 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,902, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takamasa Hase (Kanagawa, Japan), Arinobu Yoshiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shogo Nakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a fixing device, and circuitry. The image forming section forms one or more toner images of one or more toners on a recording medium. The fixing device heats the one or more toner images and the recording medium based on a target fixing temperature. The circuitry is configured to receive a print jo...