US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Post-processing apparatus that performs post-processing on sheets discharged from image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,371, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Post-processing apparatus that performs post-processing on sheets discharged from image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryuhei Shoji (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer unit receives a sheet and temporarily holds a predetermined number of sheets so as to be overlaid on one another. A stacking unit stacks the predetermined number of sheets conveyed toward a first direction. A moving unit comes into contact with an uppermost sheet among the predetermined number of sheets stacked on the stacking unit and moves the uppermost sheet further toward the fi...