ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,008, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that announces abnormality of sheet" was invented by Shinya Matsui (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a sheet transport mechanism, a sheet abnormality detection device, an output tray, an escape tray, a notification device, and a control device. The escape tray is provided separately from the output tray, and receives the sheet, from which abnormality has been detected by the sheet abnormality detection device, and delivered by the sheet transport mecha...