ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,006, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sheet post-processing device and image forming system" was invented by Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan) and Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When discharging a sheet onto a discharge tray, a control unit sets position of the discharge tray in an up and down direction to a predetermined discharge position. When loading the sheet onto a processing tray, the control unit ...