ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,459, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Naoto Tokuma (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet conveying apparatus that has a first conveying roller pair, and a second conveying roller pair, and corrects skew feeding of a sheet by a tip of the sheet abutting against a nip portion of the first conveying roller pair, including: a conveying unit that can shift and has a third conveying roller provided between the first conveying roller pair and the second conveying roller pair, wherein when a first sheet is conveyed, a tip of the first...