ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,541, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet post-processing device and image forming system" was invented by Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan) and Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing an alignment process on a sheet loaded on the processing tray in a state where a front end of the sheet is protruded from a discharge outlet above a discharge tray, the control unit performs a front end alignment p...