ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,811, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium with calculating of processing length, which is length of print medium that can be processed by post processing device" was invented by Cho Ryo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire an acceptable number for processing, which is a number of the plurality of images that can be processed by a post processing device, a calculation unit configured to calculate a number of divisions for a plurality of im...