ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,307, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takanori Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Narahara (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yutaka Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a feed tray, first and second sensors, and a controller. The controller adjusts a sheet interval between the first and second recording materials based on sensor detected length and width of a recording material fed from the feed tray. When a first recording material has a first length and a second recording material has a second length longer than the first length, the cont...