ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,662, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport apparatus having detention device for accommodating sheet, and image forming system including transport device" was invented by Takashi Kotani (Osaka, Japan) and Toshiaki Inoue (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport apparatus includes a transport device, a detention device, a reversing device, and a switching device. The transport device sequentially transports sheets, each having an image formed on an upper face thereof, from an image forming apparatus in a predetermined direction. The detention device accommodates th...