ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,475, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Katsuhide Koga (Ibaraki, Japan), Kazusa Morimoto (Chiba, Japan), Norio Negishi (Tokyo), Hiroki Sato (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takahiro Oonuma (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a sheet detection sensor for detecting the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a seco...