ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,729, issued on July 22, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).
"Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method" was invented by Koki Fukuda (Hyogo, Japan), Kisho Yanase (Hyogo, Japan) and Masashi Kuwada (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet processing apparatus has: a processing unit having, at a front side of a housing, openings through which at least one of feeding a sheet in the housing or feeding the sheet out from the housing is performed; a storage chamber configured to store the sheet fed in the housing, and a door disposed at an opening part of the storage chamber is capable of being locked; a cont...