US Patent Issued to CANON on March 18 for "Image forming apparatus that detects an image on a sheet while sheet conveyance is stopped" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,817, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that detects an image on a sheet while sheet conveyance is stopped" was invented by Koji Suzuki (Chiba, Japan), Shingo Iwami (Tokyo), Yuma Inui (Ibaraki, Japan) and Yoshiya Numata (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a reversing unit configured to convey a sheet conveyed from the image forming unit in a first direction, stop the conveyance, and then convey the sheet in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, an image det...