ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,614, issued on April 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sheet conveyance apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinya Noda (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a casing, an electric cable including a conductor and an insulator configured to cover the conductor, and a guide member attached to the casing and configured to guide the electric cable, wherein the guide member includes a wire-forming member formed of a metal wire, and wherein the electric cable is wired along the guide member with at least one of the electric cable and the gu...