ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,935, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Conveyance device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Momiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Kosuge (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance device includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a material to be conveyed; a guide unit that guides the material to be conveyed, the guide unit being movable between a first position at which a first conveyance path is formed and a second position at which a second conveyance path is formed; a driving unit th...