ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,499, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Ishido (Osaka, Japan), Kotaro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan), Haruna Takamura (Osaka, Japan) and Yuta Ikeda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus is capable of correcting a lateral deviation and/or a skew of a sheet. A pair of conveying rollers convey the sheet to a transfer position of an image. An image sensor reads the sheet on an upstream side of the transfer position in a sheet conveying direction. A control device senses a foreign substance on a reading surface of the im...