ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,277, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus with metallic roller correcting curl of sheet by deforming elastic roller" was invented by Naoki Ishioka (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, a discharging portion, a discharge path toward the discharging portion, a reversing portion including a reverse path branched from the discharge path and to reverse the sheet and a reconveying path branched from the reverse path and through which the sheet reversed in the reversing portion is reconveyed to the image forming ...