US Patent Issued to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING on Jan. 13 for "Sheet registration device for non-rectangular sheets" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,458, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Sheet registration device for non-rectangular sheets" was invented by Joris M.B. Weemaes (Venlo, Netherlands), Ton A.J.J. Van Bommel (Venlo, Netherlands) and Stefan J.G. Bruekers (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When duplex printing non-rectangular sheets of printable media, the sheets require proper registration to prevent misalignment of front and back images. This is ensured by: determining relative orientations of three different edges of a sheet being transported towards print station on a first pass; registeri...