ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,370, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Method for conveying sheet in post-processing apparatus" was invented by Takuro Mita (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taro Ishifune (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-processing apparatus includes a conveyance path, a buffer unit, a post-processing unit, and a processor. The conveyance path receives a sheet conveyed from a conveyance apparatus in a stage preceding the post-processing apparatus. The buffer unit forms a sheet bundle constituted by sheets. The post-processing unit loads the sheet bundle performs post-processing on the sheet bundle. The processor con...