ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,705, issued on April 8, was assigned to Horizon Inc. (Shiga, Japan).

"Conveyance control device and conveyance control method" was invented by Jun Mochizuki (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance control unit is provided with a conveyance request unit configured to transmit a conveyance request signal to a paper conveyance device at a conveyance request timing corresponding to a processing cycle of a downstream paper processing device, a passage information reception unit configured to receive a paper passage signal indicating that paper has been sent out from the paper conveyance device, and the determination unit...