ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,997, issued on May 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuya Shimohora (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a pair of registration rollers, an image formation unit, a roller movement mechanism, a detection unit and a control unit which performs a displacement correction for moving the pair of registration rollers from a home position. The control unit determines tendency information indicating the tendency of a displacement direction and a displacement amount of a sheet, the control unit displaces the home position in ...