US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on April 1 for "Image forming apparatus and method to determine cutting state of sheet medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,674, issued on April 1, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and method to determine cutting state of sheet medium" was invented by Hideaki Yoshimune (Nagoya, Japan), Masatomo Yamaguchi (Inazawa, Japan), Yuya Tatematsu (Nagoya, Japan), Takashi Suzuki (Toyota, Japan) and Yuto Chiba (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor to convey a sheet medium, a print engine to form an image on the sheet medium, a cutter to cut the sheet medium, a signal output device, and a controller. The cutter includes a first blade, a second blade, and a moving device ...