ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,535, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shingo Iwami (Tokyo), Hiroto Koga (Chiba, Japan), Toshifumi Itabashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Kozo Inoue (Chiba, Japan) and Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a tray rotatably provided on a side surface of a main assembly and including a stacking surface, a feeding portion; and a blowing fan mounted on the tray and generating air blown to a side end of a sheet in a sheet widthwise direction perpendicular to a feeding direction of the sheet by the feedi...