ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,285, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Booklet production apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Kenji Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a region of a heating pressurization unit in a longitudinal direction of the heating pressurization unit where the heating pressurization unit heats and pressurizes a sheet of a maximum size is a first region, and a region of the heating pressurization unit in the longitudinal direction where the heating pressurization unit heats and pressurizes a sheet of a minimum size is a second region, and a region of the heating pressurizati...