ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,504, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideki Hayashi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reversing roller pair, a moving unit, and an obtaining unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The reversing roller pair nips the sheet having the image, rotates in a first direction, and then rotate in a second direction and conveys the sheet. The moving unit moves the reversing roller pair. The obtaining unit obtains the sheet length. If a first sheet having a first length is reversed and conveyed...