US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on March 25 for "Sheet transport device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,239, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sheet transport device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasunobu Goto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiki Matsuzaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshinori Koike (Kanagawa, Japan), Natsumi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuhiro Hiroe (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotake Eguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji Deguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and capable of moving in an axial direction crossing...