ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,152, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system" was invented by Kota Mori (Chiba, Japan), Yoshiro Tsukada (Chiba, Japan), Tohru Nakaegawa (Chiba, Japan), Kenichiro Kitajima (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoyuki Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan) and Shuichi Tamura (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a pressure-bonding processing apparatus, an inputting portion, and a controller. The controller changes, in a case that directions of a front surface and a back surface of a recording material inputting portion and different from the directions of the fron...