ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,092, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet postprocessing apparatus that performs postprocessing on plurality of sheets stacked, and image forming system including same" was invented by Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan), Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet postprocessing apparatus includes a table configured to receive a plurality of sheets delivered thereto, and inclined downward toward a downstream...