ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,369, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Sheet stacker module" was invented by Johannes A. M. Henderickx (Venlo, Netherlands), Hermanus M. Kuypers (Venlo, Netherlands), Fabian T. Rosenboom (Venlo, Netherlands), Lodewijk T. Holtman (Venlo, Netherlands), Joshua D. Curran (Venlo, Netherlands), Erik P. J. Verhoeven (Venlo, Netherlands), Johannes E. P. Peulen (Venlo, Netherlands), Maikel W. H. Bergmans (Venlo, Netherlands), Luc Linders (Venlo, Netherlands) and Rob J. E. Looijmans (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacker module includes a lift table, a stack...