US Patent Issued to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS on Feb. 24 for "Heating control method and image forming apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,880, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZHUHAI PANTUM ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Heating control method and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ronghua Li (Guangdong, China), Hongyan Liu (Guangdong, China), Hongcheng Xiang (Guangdong, China) and Yulin Liang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a heating control method and image forming apparatus. The heating control method includes: when an image forming apparatus is in a printing state, determining a time duration t1 required for the fixing assembly to rise from a current temperature or a temperature at a set moment to a preset target temp...