ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,096, issued on June 24, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming system including the apparatus" was invented by Yasunori Ueno (Osaka, Japan), Keisuke Egawa (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Takano (Osaka, Japan), Takehiko Okada (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Nishimura (Osaka, Japan), Terumitsu Noso (Osaka, Japan) and Seiichi Shirasaki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a sheet post-processing apparatus in which a control portion repetitively performs a width-direction alignment operation including a first alignment operation of moving width regulating membe...