US Patent Issued to Canon Finetech Nisca on July 29 for "Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,295, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon Finetech Nisca Inc. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Mamoru Kubo (Yamanashi, Japan), Toshiyuki Katsumata (Yamanashi, Japan), Takuma Kobayashi (Yamanashi, Japan), Yusuke Mitsui (Yamanashi, Japan) and Koji Kanda (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a binding unit performs a binding process at the corner portion on a first end side in a width direction of the sheet in the second posture, an abutment operation of conveying the sheet and abutting the downstream end edge of the sheet in a conveyance direction aga...