ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,499, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Ryuhei Shoji (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasuhiro Nakahara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction, a punching unit configured to punch a hole to the sheet being conveyed by the conveyance unit, a moving unit configured to move the punching unit in an intersecting direction intersecting the sheet conveyance direction, a detection unit arranged upstream of the punching unit in the sheet conve...