ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,436, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus that can form images on both sides of sheet" was invented by Kosuke Ogino (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Hagiwara (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first drive source of a first roller and a third roller, a second drive source of a second roller, and a control unit, which is configured to perform a first control of changing a conveying speed of a sheet by the first roller from a reference speed in order to adjust timing at which the sheet reaches an image forming region until a front end of the sheet...