ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,539, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Jun Kawakita (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus includes a shift unit including a pair of first conveying rollers that nip and convey a sheet and being able to move in a width direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction of the sheet in a state of nipping the sheet; a drive gear configured to transmit a driving force from a drive motor; a rack gear including a rack portion that meshes with the drive gear, the rack gear being configured to receive the driving forc...