US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on May 13 for "Image forming apparatus and method to adjust amount of sheet medium between upstream roller and downstream roller in conveyance direction" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,578, issued on May 13, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and method to adjust amount of sheet medium between upstream roller and downstream roller in conveyance direction" was invented by Gakuro Kanazawa (Toyokawa, Japan), Taisei Okuzono (Nagoya, Japan), Yushi Deura (Nagoya, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakano (Nagoya, Japan), Haruka Azechi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yuki Tsujimura (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a controller that performs one or more times a first image forming process including performing image formation on a sheet medium, and conveying the s...