ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,248, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shun Yamashita (Shizuoka, Japan) and Atsushi Kawarago (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a reversing unit, a detection unit for detecting leading and trailing edges of a sheet, and an alignment unit for aligning an image with respect to the leading edge of the sheet, and generates an output item in which a first sheet with a first image and a second sheet with a second image are stacked, a surface with the first image of the first sheet and a surface with the sec...