ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,758, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet detection device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Sato (Ibaraki, Japan), Kazusa Morimoto (Chiba, Japan), Norio Negishi (Tokyo), Takahiro Oonuma (Chiba, Japan) and Katsuhide Koga (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a sheet, and a power supply voltage controller configured to control supply of a power supply voltage to the measurement unit, wherein the power supply voltage controller is configured to start supplying the power supply voltage to the measurement unit wh...