US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 28 for "Image forming apparatus and method for operating image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,617, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and method for operating image forming apparatus" was invented by Kumiko Ogino (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes one or more controllers; and an image former having a detachable fixing unit, wherein the one or more controllers acquire fixing unit information on a fixing unit being attached to the image former, and execute a predetermined process, based on the acquired fixing unit information."

The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2024, under Application No. 18/922,638.

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