US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 6 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,499, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenji Kitami (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a fixing belt that is heated by the heat source to thermally fix a color material to each of a plurality of pieces of paper in sequence, an operation acceptor that allows a user to specify a fixation degree of the color material for the plurality of pieces of paper, and one or more controllers that cause each of the plurality of pieces of paper to pass through the fixing belt in sequence at a control paper feed ...